A worker was trapped when the compact lift he was operating overturned August 24, 2024, in Port Republic, Md. The 29-year-old worker was transported to a local hospital with unknown injuries, according to an smnewsnet.com report.
A man pinned by fronds 50 feet off the ground while pruning a palm was rescued by firefighters on June 12, 2020, in Las Vegas, Nevada. A ladder truck reached the man and a platform was put in place to get him into a harness before he was lowered in what officials called a “high-angle […]
A climber who was injured while topping a conifer tree was rescued after being stranded 80 feet in the air on June 27, 2020, in Lakeview, Idaho. The climber was cutting the top of the tree when it either broke free early or went the wrong way, or both, and struck him. The tree was […]
A chipper operator died on the job after an incident on April 27, 2020, in New Philadelphia, Ohio. Tanner M. Perry, 25, of Dennison, Ohio, was working with a tree-service company chipping tree limbs when something caused the machine to malfunction. Emergency services received a call reporting that a chipper had “exploded” and one person […]
