Coroner Identifies 18-Year-Old Winlock Man Killed in Logging Accident

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The Lewis County Coroner’s Office has released the name of the 18-year-old Winlock man killed Wednesday in a logging accident.

Cole Bostwick, 18, of Winlock, was setting chokers for a logging operation on Green Diamond property on the 4700 line off of Pe Ell-McDonald Road at about 11:43 a.m. when a carriage was lowered, accidentally crushing him, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office.

The impact killed him instantly, the sheriff’s office said.

The Washington state Department of Labor & Industries has been notified.

An autopsy is scheduled for Thursday.



Bostwick was working for ENB Logging and Trucking with his father, Tim Bostwick, who was at the scene when the accident happened, according to the sheriff’s office.

Friends and former classmates shared their shock and sympathy Wednesday on Facebook.

“"It's moments like this that make you appreciate the little things in life,” Jazmin Ramirez, a Winlock High School student, wrote on Facebook. “Never take anything for granted, hold those that you are close to and never let them go cause you don't know when you could lose them. You’re in a better place now Cole."

Bostwick’s great-uncle Dick Robinette, Winlock, told The Chronicle Wednesday evening that Bostwick was a friendly teenager, always busy with his friends.

“I really wasn’t around him much. I just know he is a pleasant young man and the story was he was a good athlete and a hard worker,” Robinette said.