A college student helping a property owner clear storm-felled trees died January 25, 2025, in Anderson, South Carolina, after being crushed under the root plate of one of the trees. Ethan Alexander Ackerman, 20, of Central, S.C., and two friends, one of whom was the property owner, were clearing an area where several large trees […]
A man was killed after being struck by a tree branch January 4, 2025, in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Dwight Johnson, 50, of Lawrenceburg, and three of his sons were working on a project when he spotted a branch in the way. While trying to pull the branch out of the way, it broke loose and hit […]
A loader operator was struck and killed by a tree November 18, 2024, in Covington, Georgia. Jeffrey Marcellus Smith, 54, of Covington, was helping a homeowner clear a wooded area. Smith was inside a Bobcat when he was struck in the chest by a tree he was clearing. He was pronounced dead at the scene, […]
A tree worker was injured by a falling limb or tree while felling a tree November 4, 2024, in Asheville, North Carolina. A contracted tree crew was cutting a tree at the Biltmore Estate when it fell into another tree, and the second tree struck one of the workers. The worker was initially trapped under […]
A worker was killed when he was struck by a log October 25, 2024, in Salt Lake City, Utah. Christopher Kilpatrick, 37, of Taylorsville, Utah, released a strap on a truckload of logs being delivered at a dump site when he was struck in the head by a log, according to a Fox 13 report.
