An aerial-lift operator performing line clearance along a roadway escaped injury when his lift truck fell on its side on January 22, 2021, in Montgomery County, Texas, on the north side of Houston. The tip-over was caused by muddy conditions, coupled with the load-side outriggers being set on the edge of a drainage ditch. The […]
It took emergency crews about 20 minutes to free a tree trimmer who wound up trapped upside down in a palm tree, about 30 feet above the ground, November 9, 2020, in a San Carlos, California- area neighborhood. After firefighters got the victim, a man in his 40s, out of the tree, medics took him […]
Firefighters took about an hour to free a climber whose leg was pinned by a fallen limb on November 7, 2020, in Fairfield, Connecticut. A crew from a tree company was working on a tree when a branch suddenly dropped as one of the workers was removing a large limb from an adjacent tree. The […]
A climber was rescued by first responders on November 5, 2020, in Clayton County, Georgia, after he became pinned in a tree by a rigging line. Responding officers found two tree workers in the backyard of a home, including the one pinned from ankle to torso by a rope being held taut by a large […]
