By GREGG MONTGOMERY
WISH-TV | wishtv.com
Jimmy Grider, 69, Arcadia, died Wednesday after falling about eight feet from an elevated hunting blind, Indiana conservation officers said.
Fountain County dispatchers received a 911 call at about 11 a.m. on Wednesday about the hunter’s fall near the 2000 block of West Snoddy Road. That’s near Prairie Creek, about a mile north of the rural community of Cates, which is about 60 miles west-northwest of Indianapolis.
Grider died at the scene. He was not wearing a full-body harness or any other climbing safety gear, according to a news release from conservation officers with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
An autopsy has been scheduled to determine his cause of death.
The release said, “Indiana Conservation Officers would like to remind Hoosiers that the most common hunting related injuries are accidents involving tree stands and elevated platforms. All Hoosiers are urged to wear a full body safety harness when ascending and descending elevated platforms. For more information, see hunting.IN.gov.”