ELLERSHOUSE, N.S. – The Hants County District RCMP is investigating the death of a 57-year-old farm worker, who was apparently struck by the tree that he was cutting down on April 16. According to a press release from the RCMP, officers were called to a wooded area in Hants County at about 7:15 a.m. that morning and determined that the man, whose name has not been released publicly, had been killed at the site. Police do not suspect foul play at this time, the release added. “This is a tremendously tragic day for this man’s family, friends and loved ones,” Nova Scotia Labour and Advanced Education Minister Kelly Regan said in a press statement following the tragedy. “I want to assure them that our investigators are onsite to help find out what happened, and I hope that, in some way, this helps to provide them some comfort.” Backgrounder information from the provincial Ministry of Labour and Advanced Education stated that this was the seventh occupational fatality in N.S. in 2015 so far.