The owner of a tree service died when he was thrown from the bucket of his aerial-lift truck April 28, 2023, in Little Rock, Arkansas. Michael Parker, 66, of Carlisle, Ark., was assisting with tornado cleanup when he attempted to lift a tree stump out of the backyard of a home using the boom of […]
A man died while helping a friend trim a tree April 8, 2023, in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Touni Bsiela, 43, of Whitehall, Pa., was 20 feet up on an extension ladder when he fell to the ground. He was rushed to the hospital and pronounced dead in the emergency room, according to a WFMZ-TV 69 news […]
A man fell and died March 6, 2023, in Cedar Hill, Tennessee, while clearing trees or limbs from the roof of his home after a storm. Stan Richards, 65, was transported via ambulance to a local emergency facility for stabilization and was then flown to a hospital in Nashville, where he died, according to a […]
A man fell from a ladder while trimming trees at his home in Sarasota, Florida, January 19, 2023. The man, Florida congressman Greg Stoef, 44, of Sarasota, was admitted to the intensive-care unit with severe but non-life-threatening injuries. Stoef fell approximately 25 feet when he was knocked off the ladder, according to a Miami Herald […]
A worker died after falling from a tree December 28, 2022, in Saratoga Springs, New York. Eric LaRue, 57, of Providence, New York, fell approximately 30 feet and died at the scene, according to a Daily Gazette report.
