Coroner IDs Teen Worker Who Died In Woodchipping Accident In Lehigh Valley

Isiah M. Bedocs, 17, was working with a woodchipper on the 3700 block of Excelsior Road in North Whitehall Township when he became critically injured around 1:40 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 9, according to the Lehigh County Coroner's Office and Pennsylvania State Police.

Those injuries were not specified in a press release, though, LehighValleyLive reports his clothes got caught in the machine while working a tree job.

The Coplay teen was airlifted to Lehigh Valley Hospital-Cedar Crest, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later, police said. 

Bedocs' cause of death was determined to be multiple traumatic injuries and his manner of death was an accident, the coroner said.

The incident remains under investigation by the Pennsylvania State Police Bethlehem Criminal Investigation Unit, along with help from the Lehigh County Coroner's Office, the Home Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and Stew's Towing.

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