A man was injured when he was pinned under a branch February 23, 2025, in Beatrice, Nebraska. The man was cutting firewood when he became pinned under a falling branch. The fire department used air bags to lift the branch off of the man, and he was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according […]
A tree worker was injured when she was shocked February 15, 2025, in Abilene, Texas. The 22-year-old woman was working as part of a tree-trimming crew when the crew’s bucket-truck boom struck a power line. It was unclear if the victim was in the bucket or if she was on the ground and received a […]
A motorist was injured when a large tree felled by a tree crew dropped into the street, striking her passing vehicle January 26, 2025, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Firefighters built cribbing to lift the tree off the car pinned beneath it so the driver could be evacuated. The driver was taken to a nearby hospital with […]
Two public-works employees were injured January 9, 2025, in Waukegan, Illinois, when a truck’s crane boom came in contact with power lines. The two tree workers were part of a public-works crew working in the area when one of the trucks, equipped with a crane, touched a power line. The power line energized the truck, […]
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 […]
