A homeowner was injured when he fell while cutting a limb from a tree on September 23, 2021, in East Alton, Illinois.
The man was attempting to cut a tree limb down when the limb fell, taking the homeowner with it. The man fell 10 to 15 feet, and the tree limb landed on top of him.
The man was flown to a St. Louis hospital for treatment, but the severity of his injuries was not immediately known, according to a KMOV-TV report.
A climber died in a fall from a tree he was working on June 4, 2020, in Ridgewood, New Jersey. The 35-year-old man from Bergenfield, N.J., was working at a home for a local tree-service company. He was nearly 30 feet up when he fell, and a tree limb landed on top of him. He […]
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 […]
A tree worker died in a 60-foot fall from a tree June 12, 2020, in St. Helena, California. Jesus Perez, 49, of Napa, Calif., was a tree-removal worker for a company that offers products and services for wineries. He died at the scene, according to the Napa Valley Register report.
