Oconee County Coroner Rules Death Of Westminster Man Killed In Tree Accident Accidental

(Seneca, SC)———The Oconee County Coroner’s Office has classified the death of a Westminster man yesterday as accidental. 

62 year old Timothy Andrew Butts died Wednesday after a tree he was cutting on his property fell on him, according to a release from the Coroner’s Office. 

Coroner Karl Addis says that the Mr. Butts was discovered at approximately 2:15pm yesterday and the first 911 call for assistance was received at 2:19pm. 

Emergency responders were dispatched to an address on Sweet Briar Trail in the Foxwood Hills Development near Westminster. 

Coroner Addis said that the decedent died at the scene from multiple traumatic injuries.