PA Pipeline Death

12/13/2012 (Updated 12/16/2012 11:04:58 PM)

A man died in Pennsylvania's Bradford County,  while a tree he was clearing for a natural gas pipeline struck him and knocked him to the ground.

It happened Wednesday afternoon in Burlington Township, near Towanda, PA.

42-year-old Kenneth Elliott died of blunt force head trauma. He was working for "midway oilfield"  out of Midway, Texas.

Elliott's death has been ruled accidental.  He leaves behind three children.