August 11, 2015
From Roanoke.com
Last year on opening day of the muzzleloading season, Bob Boyd fell while climbing into a 20-foot high tree stand. He suffered 10 broken ribs, three hairline fractures to his spine and a dislocated hip.
Boyd, who is in his mid-70s, spent two weeks in a medically induced coma and three months in a rehabilitation center after that cold, early November day on land he owns in Montgomery County.
This past season in Virginia there were 38 reported hunting mishaps, 15 of them involving tree stands — two of those fatal.