Published: June 25, 2008 12:41 am            

Teen dies day after mishap

Jordan Essex, 14, struck by tree limb

Fourteen-year-old Jordan Essex died Tuesday at Wishard Hospital, of injuries he sustained from a falling tree limb on Monday.

The rural Thorntown teenager was injured Monday when the limb struck him in the head. He underwent surgery at Wishard Monday to relieve pressure on the brain, but succumbed to his injuries Tuesday.

Essex was helping his father cut down a tree when the limb, 20 feet long and six to eight inches in diameter, hit him, Boone County Sheriff’s Deputy Jason Reynolds said in a report.

The accident happened at 3125 North County Road 875 West, Reynolds said.

The teen was flown by PHI Helicopter to Wishard Hospital.

Essex had just finished his seventh-grade year at Western Boone Junior-Senior High School.

Information on funeral services is pending at Myers Mortuary in Lebanon.

Jordon Essex is the fourth young person with connections to Western Boone schools to die in an accident since March.

Brayton Hiland, 13, died March 8 from injuries in an ATV crash. He was a sixth-grader at Granville Wells. Rob Jones, 22, died in a car crash on I-65 near Lebanon on March 31. Jones was a 2004 Western Boone High School graduate. Natalie Duke, 16, died April 15 in a wreck on a rural road. She was a sophomore at Western Boone High School.

        

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