A climber was seriously injured on March 28, 2021, in Porter County, Indiana, when the limb he was tied to broke and he fell about 50 feet to the ground. Joshua Stone, of Porter County, was helping a friend on a side job with the removal of a 60-foot walnut tree. Stone, who has been […]
A man was injured on March 13, 2021, after falling from a tree he was working in at a house in Wayland, Massachusetts. The man, in his 40s, fell 15 feet and landed on an embankment. The man was airlifted to Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston with serious injuries, according to a patch.com report.
An aerial-lift operator doing tree work was killed after a cut limb struck the bucket he was in and he fell 30 feet to the ground on February 23, 2021, in Anderson, South Carolina. Jacob C. Williams, 64, was treated at the scene and transported to AnMed Health after suffering cardiac arrest and traumatic injuries. […]
An experienced tree worker was severely injured when the top boom of an 83-foot compact lift apparently suffered a sudden structural failure, dropping him to the ground with it, on a job on February 17, 2021, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The injured arborist, Sam Neterval-Quiel, suffered multiple injuries, according to a GoFundMe post and a vertikal.net […]
A landscaper died after falling from a tree he was trimming on January 18, 2021, in West Hills, on Long Island, New York. Vicente Oliver, 51, of Levittown, N.Y., was trimming a tree at a home when a branch broke. He fell about 40 feet to his death, according to an Associated Press and www.usnews.com […]
