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BARAGA TWP. -- Police have released the name of a Rockland man killed Friday afternoon in a logging accident.

Fifty-nine-year-old Thomas O'Connell was logging in a wooded area off of Niemi Road in Baraga Township when a large cedar tree fell on top of him.

O'Connell suffered a massive head injury.

Bay Ambulance evacuated O'Connell from the woods by snowmobile, then transported him to Baraga Memorial Hospital where he was later pronounced dead.