Back story is the owners wife was operating the tractor, she's no rookie and has been working along side her husband for years. They work 1000 acres of row crops and several hundred acres of pecans including the ones they lease from us. She walked away with one scratch on her face no other damage.
I really feel this is a freak accident I've been in the same situation before and there are many blindspots on one of these orchard tractors, usually the cage will catch the limb and direct it up and over but this one must have lined up just right between the tubes.