{"id":171086,"date":"2026-04-20T19:31:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:31:24","slug":"alsace-man-fatally-struck-by-branch-of-tree-he-was-cutting-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/171086\/","title":{"rendered":"Alsace man fatally struck by branch of tree he was cutting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Sherwood Brubaker, 76, was pronounced dead at 1:45 p.m. Saturday by an emergency department physician in Reading Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>He died of head injuries and the death was ruled accidental, Stitzel said.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Alsace Township man died in Reading Hospital shortly after he was struck by a branch while felling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[7673,349,182,139,28,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-171086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-alsace-township","9":"tag-berks-county","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-reading-city","14":"tag-reading-city-headlines","15":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}