A bear tackled and bit a man just before noon Sunday in Jim Thorpe.

The attack was caught on a security camera at the home of Mike Bramich, who was also involved in the attack but was uninjured.

Jim Thorpe Police Chief Joe Schatz said his department was dispatched to the area of 108 Silk St. around 11:40 a.m. for the incident. Officers spoke with the victim, 40-year-old Andrew Nierer, and a neighbor.

“Nierer said he was walking on the trail that leads from Silk Street to the Jim Thorpe Market when he observed the bear and attempted to walk away from it,” Schatz said in a report. “The bear followed him back to Silk Street. The bear bit Nierer on his left arm and scratched him. Due to the bear attacking Nierer, the neighbor had no other choice but to shoot and kill the bear.”

Schatz said the Pennsylvania Game Commission was contacted. Nierer was evaluated by Lehighton EMS and transported to Lehigh Valley Hospital for treatment. The Game Commission is handling the incident.

Mike’s wife, Ruth Ann Bramich, said Nierer spotted the bear as he was walking near their home.

“The guy was going down our property,” Ruth Ann said. “He went down a couple steps and there was a bear that was coming up. It was stumbling, coming up the property.”

Nierer did an about face. He wanted to warn Mike, she said.

“He knew my husband just came home — and my husband is hard of hearing,” Ruth Ann said.

Nierer waited a few moments as Mike was unloading his truck and ventured into his garage.

“It wasn’t long. He was on the street off our property when he saw Mike come out of the garage,” Ruth Ann said.

The video shows Nierer talking to Mike on the property’s driveway. As he was telling him about the bear, the bruin emerged from the woods.

Video captured the bear approaching Mike, who backs away. The bear then turns its attention to Nierer, who was already in the process of walking away.

As Nierer continues walking down the driveway, the bear picks up its pace, rears onto its hind legs, then wrestles him to the ground.

“It attacked him,” Ruth Ann said. “It grabbed a hold of his arm and was going to drag him.”

Footage shows Nierer struggle as the bear continues to keep him on the ground.

Mike had a gun and shot the bear, she said.

The Bramichs phoned 911. Jim Thorpe police arrived and Nierer was taken away by ambulance.

Ruth Ann fears the bear was rabid. She explained that she had heard that the bear, which she said a female, was at the nearby Jim Thorpe Market.

“It was down at the market after people, slamming into cars and it came up this way,” she noted.

Ruth Ann said her husband was unharmed, however, he is “shaken up” and worried about Nierer.

Despite the property’s close proximity to the woods, Ruth Ann said she hasn’t seen a bear “in a long time.”

The Pennsylvania Game Commission investigates bear attacks. Contacted Sunday, a commission representative was unable to release information on the attack.

The commission notes on its website that bear attacks in Pennsylvania are uncommon, and average about one or two per year.