A 32-year-old rural Dix man was airlifted to a St. Louis hospital for treatment of injuries after he fell an estimated 15 feet from a deer tree stand Sunday
afternoon.
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department says Nathaniel Benjamin of Sumpter Road on the north side of Dix was ow hunting by himself when the fall occurred. When he failed to return home at dark, his father went to the tree stand and found his son on the ground semi-conscious.
The father had last talked to his son at three Sunday afternoon. He was found around 5:30 Sunday afternoon.
The sheriff’s department, Jefferson Fire Protection District and Litton’s Ambulance all responded.
Benjamin was initially taken to a Mt. Vernon hospital before being airlifted to St. Louis.
