Man killed in Tustin wood chipper accident (Orange County, California)

The Orange County Register ^ | November 8, 2007 | Kimberly Edds and Ryan Hammill

[EveningStar]

Police, coroner’s investigators and safety regulators are calling the death of a landscaper – who fell into a wood chipper while feeding the machine branches in a Tustin cul-de-sac Wednesday – an unfortunate industrial accident...

[EveningStar]

This is close to home for me, and tragic. :(

[EveningStar]

This replaces a previous article which was pulled because of source. This is a different article from a different source on the same story.

Ping to SoCal list and others

[Vaquero]

This guy knows from wood chippers

[Disambiguator]

He’s just funny-lookin’, dontcha know.

[PAR35]

about 10 miles south of the girl's hometown of Stella

I had guessed that it would be farther away than that. Perhaps the stepfather is innocent.

[BJClinton]

Alright, make room in the hand basket for me.

[randog]

...an unfortunate industrial accident...

Impossible. Some white heterosexual male or government agency is at fault.

[freekitty]

That’s awful.

[FredHead47]

[BurbankKarl]

I guess you could say his chips were down.

[A. Patriot]

When I was in high school, I worked a couple of summers for a tree and landscaping company doing mainly power line clearing.

My job was to drag the branches that had been trimmed from the trees and feed them into a chipper. I quickly realized how dangerous the job was. If you stood behind the chipper and fed the branches in, it could jerk the limb in and if you were still holding onto it, you could lose your balance and get sucked in with the rest of the branch. Much safer to stand close to it on the side and pitch the branches in.

Over the years, I have thought often how horrible this type of accident would be.

[null and void]

I guess you could say his chips were down.

Nah. I'd say he crashed cashed in his chips.

[abigailsmybaby]

He’s kinda funny lookin’.

[bigfootbob]

Those hydraulic autofeeders are unforgiving. Tragic death.

[dljordan]

“This is close to home for me, and tragic. :(”

The same thing happened to the guy that trims my trees here in Colorado. He was a super nice, honest man and very good at what he did. It’s just a shame.

[DuncanWaring]

A few years ago (in Phoenix, if I recall correctly), there was a guy who attempted murder-suicide, trying to kill himself and his former girlfriend by grabbing her and trying to hop into a chipper.

As events transpired, he was a little ahead of her, lost his grip, and it ended up as just a suicide.

[null and void]

Yeah. Bad. Quick, but bad.

[BJClinton]

snickeringg

[Froufrou]

I’m sorry to hear that. It’s so Fargo.

[Renegade]

Isn’t there a song “ I Go To Pieces “?