An Alsace Township man died in Reading Hospital shortly after he was struck by a branch while felling a tree on his property over the weekend, Berks County Coroner Matthew J. Stitzel said Monday.
Sherwood Brubaker, 76, was pronounced dead at 1:45 p.m. Saturday by an emergency department physician in Reading Hospital.
He died of head injuries and the death was ruled accidental, Stitzel said.
Brubaker was cutting a tree in the first block of Wanshop Road early Saturday afternoon when a branch broke off near the top of the tree and struck him, the coroner said.
He was removed from the woods by personnel from the Oley and Lower Alsace fire and ambulance companies and Mount Penn Fire Company and transported by ambulance to the hospital.