THats bad imeen working there for two days and you go in and die after feeding an Elk. OUch

Just heard on the local news, that the death of the worker was not caused by the elk. The man had died of a heart attack, it just so happened that he was feeding the elk when it happened.

I'm glad it wasn't the elk that caused his death.

... how'd someone come up with the `gored' part? Maybe the guy's jacket was a mess before he entered the pen.

Here is a follow up story...

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/6979822/detail.html

This happened just a couple miles from me, and what I heard was that someone saw what they thought was blood on the elk's antlers. It was a neighbor that called the sheriff and reported it as an attack/goring by the elk.

Maybe when the elk went to check out the guy, it looked like it was attacking him, I don't know... very strange... It shouldn't have been released to the media until they knew for sure what happened.

Pretty handsome elk (pic #4 with article).

I currently hold a predation elk tag. Elk are damaging some farm property, so IFG has issued some predation hunt tags. Even on a predation hunt - the elk critters around here are still so elusive that the thought of an elk coming up and nudging a human being seems bizarre.

Latest reports indicate the man had heart trouble and it was a heart attack that killed him and not the elk. Possibility that a charge by the elk scared him into the heart attack, but at least the "official" cause of death is being listed as heart failure.

By what i seen on tv the elk was found not guilty and won't be put down.

if you died in my feed trough id get you out the way the only way i know how