{"id":254227,"date":"2026-07-29T01:33:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254227\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T01:33:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T01:33:24","slug":"man-seriously-injured-by-falling-branch-during-tree-cutting-in-bethlehem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/254227\/","title":{"rendered":"Man seriously injured by falling branch during tree cutting in Bethlehem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BETHLEHEM\u00a0&#8211; A 22-year-old was struck in the head by a falling branch last week while a tree was being cut down behind a home on Canterbury Lane, police confirmed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was hit around 3:57 p.m. Wednesday after the tree being cut down struck a different tree, breaking off a branch, Deputy Chief James L. Rexford said. Emergency medical workers and firefighters from the Delmar and Slingerlands fire departments responded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man was brought to Albany Medical Center in serious condition, Rexford said, but his current condition was not known.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:There&#039;s more to Albany with the Times Union. Subscribe today for just 25\u00a2.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/subscription.timesunion.com\/checkout\/2017\/4061\/?origin=acquisition&amp;ipid=article&amp;variant=yahoo2026\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">There&#8217;s more to Albany with the Times Union. Subscribe today for just 25\u00a2.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally published at <a data-ylk=\"slk:Man seriously injured by falling branch during tree cutting in Bethlehem;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/police-man-seriously-injured-tree-cutting-22363847.php?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=yahoo_syndication\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Man seriously injured by falling branch during tree cutting in Bethlehem<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BETHLEHEM\u00a0&#8211; A 22-year-old was struck in the head by a falling branch last week while a tree was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,108423,108422],"class_list":["post-254227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-canterbury-lane","tag-falling-branch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254227","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=254227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}