A climber was apparently electrocuted November 6, 2025, in Beverlywood, Los Angeles, California. Javier Lopez Mila, 49, of Los Angeles, was found suspended approximately 30 feet in the air and 6 to 8 feet below high-voltage power lines. He was declared dead at the scene, according to an ABC 7 repor
One worker was killed and another seriously injured when they fell out of a boom lift October 27, 2025, in Rockland, Mass. The men were maintenance workers for a condominium complex and were trimming a tree approximately 40 feet up when they both fell. Both were taken to a local hospital, where the 72-year-old man […]
A tree worker died when he contacted a live power line while he was trimming a tree October 11, 2025, in Carolina, Puerto Rico. Emergency personnel stated that the man died at the scene, according to a elVocero.com report.
A climber died in a fall October 9, 2025, in Menahga, Minnesota. The tree worker had climbed the tree to cut the top when the base broke, causing him to fall with the tree and the tree to land on him. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a Wadena Pioneer Journal report.
A man was killed by a cut limb October 4, 2025, in Peoria County, Illinois. Orin Richard C. “Rick” Burgess, 58, of Pekin, Ill., was on the ground clearing branches that had already been cut. Another man was cutting a nearby tree, and a large branch fell and hit Burgess on the head. Burgess died […]
