Logging Fatality, April 18

A Coos Bay man has died after a logging accident. On Monday, April 16, 2018 at approximately 10:00 AM, the Douglas County 9-1-1 Center received a call of a logging accident in the area of Galagher Canyon off of 138 W. When emergency services personnel arrived, they found that 49 year-old James Jarrett of Coos Bay, Oregon had been caught up into a piece of logging equipment owned by LA Logging out of Coquille. Oakland and Kellogg Fire responded to help free the patient from the equipment. Jarrett died at the scene