A tree worker was taken to the hospital on August 24, 2021, in Sioux City, Iowa, after being struck by a falling branch.
The man was knocked unconscious by a tree branch that fell an estimated 15 feet.
Sioux City Police say the man was taken to a local hospital and was not conscious at the time he was loaded into the ambulance. The severity of his injuries was unknown at the time of the KTIV Television report.
A tree worker was struck and killed by falling debris on June 1, 2020, in Anderson, Indiana. Michael Lusher, 36, was working as part of a crew from a local tree care company and was struck while clearing brush at the bottom of a tree the crew was trimming. He was transported to Ascension St. […]
A tree worker was injured June 9, 2020, in Lynn, Massachusetts, when a limb from a tree he was taking down fell on him. The 32-year-old man was working for a tree service removing a tree in Lynn Woods Reservation at the time of the accident. He was in stable condition when he was transported […]
One tree-company worker was killed and another was injured June 12, 2020, in Honolulu, Hawaii, when their company truck went off an overpass onto a highway below. Albert Ramos, 55, who was identified as the driver of the truck, was killed. His passenger, a man identified in reports only as Sinisa, 23, was injured. Ramos […]
