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Another Fatal Hunter Tree Stand Fall

(Indianapolis, IN) - A hunter falling to his death from a tree stand recently in Starke County is not the last one in Indiana for the season. 

 

Leslie Burnett, 76, fell from a tree stand Sunday in a hunting area near Borden in the far southern part of the state.  According to the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, the man was not  wearing a full-body safety harness.

 

Larry Sedwick, 53, was also not wearing a full-body safety harness in his fall on Saturday, DNR said.

 

Sedwick was from Cedar Lake.

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