An OSHA inspection classified as a “referral” means a first responder observed that an incident was occupational in nature and called OSHA, whereas one classified as “accident” means the victim was hospitalized and the employer notified OSHA. The date we publish is when the OSHA inspection was opened, and it may lag as much as […]
A man was injured November 30, 2020, in Calvin Township, Michigan, while cutting down trees on his property. Ro-Mell Dungey, 40, had been trying to remove trees on his property when one of the trees fell on him. His 14-year-old son removed the tree and then went to find help. Fire and EMS personnel removed […]
A woman was home but uninjured after a neighbor’s tree that was being felled by a tree company struck her home’s garage on November 25, 2020, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The tree service was hired to remove three trees, but one of the trees fell in an unintended direction. Although the neighbor had assured the […]
A tree trimmer was rescued from a palm on November 22, 2020, in Hughson, California, after he apparently cut himself with his saw, became disoriented and slid about 30 feet down the trunk. The man, in his late 40s or early 50s, was hired to do the tree work and was high in the tree […]
The operator of an aerial-lift bucket was injured November 19, 2020, in Duxbury, Massachusetts, when a large leader he was removing swung in an unintended direction, knocking the operator out of the bucket and to the ground. The operator was an undisclosed distance off the ground and was not wearing his full-body harness. The man […]
