A landscape employee was electrocuted when he came in contact with a live electrical wire while trimming trees March 4, 2023, in Southlake, Texas. The 46-year-old was wearing a harness and was suspended from a tree. Emergency personnel determined that the man was dead when they arrived, according to a Dallas Morning News report.
Two tree workers were killed while trimming trees near power lines February 24, 2023, in Graham, Texas. Mark Wyatt Blackwell, 65, and Roy Dean Voss, 65, both of Graham, were in the bucket of the lift when the incident occurred. Oncor Electric was called to turn off the power. Both men were pronounced dead at […]
A tree worker was injured by electric shock while working in an aerial-lift bucket February 13, 2023, in Oakland City, Indiana. The man was breathing when emergency personnel arrived. He was flown via medical helicopter to a hospital for treatment, according to an msn.com report.
A man was hospitalized in critical condition after he suffered an electric shock while trimming a tree at a house July 24, 2022, in unincorporated Tustin, California. Responding firefighters heard landscapers in a tree yelling for help after one of them contacted electrical wires. The men were holding a man who was unresponsive. The firefighters […]
A landscaper died July 23, 2022, four days after being struck by lightning while mowing a lawn or trimming a tree in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. Julio Ceasar Lopez, 27, did not have a pulse and was not breathing after being struck July 19. His family said he spent four days in the hospital before […]
