A Nassau County man was killed Thursday when a tree fell on the tractor he was operating.
Lee Charles Register, 76, was trying to bring down a dead oak tree near the town of St. George.
He couldnt see all the way through the tree, so he tried to pull it down with his tractor, said Hank Martinez, an assistant chief with the Nassau County Sheriffs Office. When the tree fell, part of it hit the tractor.
Register took down dead trees and sold them as firewood, Martinez said.