An 82-year-old Stroud man died after falling while trimming his hedge, an inquest heard yesterday.
Mr Bland had slipped while cutting the hedge at his home and had fallen when he went out to sweep up the cuttings on September 7 last year.
Gloucestershire senior coroner Katy Skerrett heard Ewart Bland suffered a fractured fractured femur and developed pneumonia when he went into Cheltenham General Hospital.
He suffered a fractured femur and then a hernia.
He was also suffering from COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease).
On 8th September he underwent a hip operation at Cheltenham General Hospital which was followed by another operation to treat a hernia.
By January his condition had worsened and on January 29, he died from pneumonia which Ms Skerrett said had been triggered by the fractured femur he had suffered previously.
She concluded his death had been an accident.
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