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 tree worker was injured after being struck by a section of tree on January 8, 2021, near Annapolis in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. The victim, a man in his 30s, was performing work when he was struck on the head. The man was flown to Shock Trauma in Baltimore for treatment of serious but […]
Two people were injured in a crash involving an overturned aerial-lift truck on February 4, 2021, in Santa Rosa, California. Firefighters with the Sonoma Valley Fire District had to extricate at least the driver from the truck. One patient was flown to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital with moderate to major injuries, while the other was […]
A driver was seriously injured when an aerial-lift truck owned by a tree care company crashed and overturned on January 29, 2021, in Warrick County, Indiana. The wreckage had to be cut away to get the driver out of the truck. The driver had minor injuries. A tow truck was called in to get the […]
One of two men cutting a tree suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries after the tree fell on him on January 17, 2021, in Dunlap, Tennessee. The incident happened off road in a wooded area at the base of a bluff. The two men were about 100 feet below the bluff cutting a small tree when […]
