A tree worker suffered major injuries and was airlifted to the hospital after being struck by a falling tree on April 6, 2021, in Pescadero, California. Firefighters used a rope system to extricate the injured man, who was 300 feet down a steep hill, according to a KION TV report.
A climber working in a tree died April 4, 2021, in Springfield, Virginia, when the limb he was tied in to broke, dropping him 40 to 45 feet to the ground. Mauro Cruz Cortes, 45, of Culpepper, Va., was cutting tree limbs at a home when the incident happened. He was secured to a tree […]
A climber suffered a serious injury and had to be rescued after his chain saw kicked back while he was about 100 feet up on the spar of a tree on April 2, 2021, in Spokane, Washington. The man, a commercial tree trimmer, suffered significant injuries and was going in and out of consciousness, and […]
Fire crews rescued a tree climber stranded 70 feet up in a tree on April 2, 2021, in Snellville, Georgia. The climber was topping a tree behind a home when he somehow became stranded. Firefighters specially trained as rope-rescue technicians created a rope system to attach to the man, who did not appear to be […]
A City of De Pere, Wisconsin, employee died after being injured on a job apparently involving tree work on April 1, 2021, in De Pere. First responders attempted life-saving measures, but the employee died on the way to the hospital. While no details were provided, video images of the scene showed an aerial lift with […]
