Worker Killed Trying To Clear Wood Chipper

Ozarker · May 1, 2004

Sometimes people just act and don't think.

"TAMPA - In the hours before the accident, the tree trimmer loaded branch after branch into the mouth of the wood chipper. "

http://news.tbo.com/news/MGA1BF2PNTD.html

jimg · May 1, 2004

I read this one Fri...WOW I cant believe he used his feet and legs to clear a jam! He had to have known the thing was going to eat him alive (which it did). What a way to go! YUCK! Someone had to clean up after this too. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

MossRoad · May 1, 2004

How sad. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

At the bottom of the story it says that is the third person to die in a chipper in 5 years in that area. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Bird · May 1, 2004

Hard to believe, isn't it?

Soundguy · May 2, 2004

I work inthe construction industry ( day gig.. ), and a company we bought crushed rock from had an old guy that ran thier crusher.. hopper developed a jamb.. so he crawled in and cleared it with his body..

Got sucked in whie it ran...

He didn't die immediatly.. he was kinda pinched off at the waist. .and lived about 4 hours in there with rescue crews trying to save him. The determined that removing him was deffinately going to kill him.. so they brought his family down to spend a few minutes with him first.. then.. as expected.. he died during removal... sad sad sad... and he had run that piece of equipment 7 years....

Soundguy

5030 · May 2, 2004

Soundguy:

I kinda wonder if that is how the mob got rid of Jimmy Hoffa? After all, no trace of Hoffa has ever been found........Here today and gone tomorrow. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

755inNY · May 2, 2004

and he had run that piece of equipment 7 years....


And like the guy with the chipper, he had probably done the same thing before. The first time you do something you know is dangerous, it is done with caution. You get away with it and do it again. After a few times, you don't think of it as dangerous any more and become more complacent. Then.....WHAM it gets you.

A lesson for all of us.

Jeff

megha_jones · May 2, 2004

( How sad. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

At the bottom of the story it says that is the third person to die in a chipper in 5 years in that area. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif [/quote

I live not far from there and remember a story 2 years ago about a lawn guy who was letting his son use a full size chipper. turns out kid was like 12 years old and got hung on a branch. that guy will never forgive himself for being that stupid. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

GerardC · May 2, 2004

( and he had run that piece of equipment 7 years....


And like the guy with the chipper, he had probably done the same thing before. The first time you do something you know is dangerous, it is done with caution. You get away with it and do it again. After a few times, you don't think of it as dangerous any more and become more complacent. Then.....WHAM it gets you.

A lesson for all of us.

Jeff )

I agree. We've all acted this way at one time or another. Makes you think.

Junkman · May 2, 2004

( Hard to believe, isn't it? )

What I find hard to believe is that the people that operate this equipment, knowing its capabilities, and still put themselves in peril by doing something that can get them killed! I can understand teenagers doing things that put them at risk because they haven't enough life experiences to realize the errors of their ways, but for people that operate this type of equipment daily not to realize this, to me, is just not comprehensibly. This isn't a freak accident, it is just deliberately putting yourself in harms way knowing that you are tempting fate. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif