MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) – A Connecticut man is the second person to die while rafting the Cheat River this month, according to the state Division of Natural Resources.

Nicholas J. Hercun, 32, of Fairfield, Conn., was on a rafting trip with several other people guided by Cheat River Outfitters.

Officials did not immediately have more details, but say the accident occurred Saturday near part of the river commonly called the “Big Nasty” in Preston County.

Hercun’s death is the state’s third whitewater fatality in a week.

On May 17, New Yorker Vicki Jane Miller-Savard died while rafting on the Cheat. Three days later, Oklahoman Charles R. Brown died in a rafting accident on the New River.