Yukon wild horse wrangler dies from head injuries

People in the Kluane area of Yukon are mourning a Burwash man who died yesterday after an accident while wrangling wild horses.

The accident happened nearKusawaLake on Sunday.

Coroner KirstenMacdonaldsays Arnold Johnson, 57, sustained serious head injuries and died at Whitehorse General Hospital on Monday.

Richard Mostynwiththe Yukon Workers Compensation Board says Johnson was an agriculture branch contractor for the Yukon government.

"The man was trying to round up wild horses and in the course of corralling the animals he was injured," Mostynsaid. "Our safety officers are looking into the events of this workplace fatality and these are early days."

The Yukon coroner says an autopsy and toxicology report havebeen ordered.

Two or three herds of wild, or at least feral, horses have been roaming southwest Yukon for at least 20 years.