JERSEY SHORE, Lycoming County — Following an investigation into an incident in which a hunter was injured by a bear in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania Game Commission Wildlife Conservation Officer David Carlini said no illegal actions took place and it simply was a matter of the hunter being in the "wrong place at the wrong time."

On Nov. 25 in Lawrence Township, a hunter was following fresh bear tracks in the snow that went into a cornfield. While he was in the middle of the cornfield, he heard and then saw a bear run away from him from about five or six cornrows away and then it turned and ran back toward the hunter. As this bear ran by him at about three feet away, the hunter sensed something to his rear and, as he was turning around to look, was hit by a second bear.

The victim suffered puncture wounds, bites and gashes, but nothing life threatening.