A dead palm tree fell on top of a Thai man and killed him at a plantation in the southern province of Satun yesterday, November 27.

 

A Thai man named Sorn reported the incident to officers at Manang Police Station and the Nikhom Pattana Sub-district Rescue Team. His 47 year old employer, Date, had been hit by a large palm tree at the plantation in Manang district of Satun province.

 

Upon arrival, the rescue team rushed to pull Date from under the palm tree and perform CPR on him. The rescuers said Date had no pulse and his heart had stopped beating when they arrived. They performed CPR for 30 minutes but were unable to save his life.

 

Sorn informed the police that he and his girlfriend had been recruited by Date to fertilise the oil palms on the plantation. Date instructed him that the fertiliser had been strategically placed, directing Sorn to start his work.

 

by Petch Petpailin

Photo via Facebook/ ข่าวเวิร์คพอยท์ 23

 

Full story: The Thaiger 2023-11-28

 

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He was probably taking a nap near the tree. Otherwise, hard to imagine how he wouldn't have been alerted. We cut down a couple on the land - takes a while to topple, and the creaking is very loud. Also coconuts dropping all over in the process. If the tree was rotten at the core or near ground level, this can usually be observed and serves as a warning not to loiter in the direction the tree might collapse. In general, people around here don't hang around under such, coconut to the noggin can be deadly.

Stay in school guys and pay other people to bring you coconuts.

2 hours ago, webfact said:

A Thai man named Sorn reported the incident to officers at Manang Police Station and the Nikhom Pattana Sub-district Rescue Team. His 47 year old employer, Date, had been hit by a large palm tree at the plantation in Manang district of Satun province.

I guess date's time was up..

3 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

Stay in school guys and pay other people to bring you coconuts.

I don't know. Life is overrated.

On 11/28/2023 at 10:47 AM, webfact said:

dead palm tree fell on top of a Thai man and killed him at a plantation

Wow, I thought that I had bad luck 

4,500,000,000,000 years for that event to take place and he was sat in the very spot.......now tell me there's a God!!!