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Man killed in Tustin wood chipper accident (Orange County, California)
The Orange County Register ^
| November 8, 2007
| Kimberly Edds and Ryan Hammill
Posted on 11/09/2007 8:58:56 AM PST by EveningStar
Police, coroners 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...
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: landscaper; orangecounty; tustin; woodchipper
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This is close to home for me, and tragic. :(
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To: EveningStar
This guy knows from wood chippers
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:04:18 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(" an armed society is a polite society" Heinlein "MOLON LABE!" Leonidas of Sparta)
To: Vaquero
He’s just funny-lookin’, dontcha know.
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:05:59 AM PST
by
Disambiguator
(Political Correctness is criminal insanity writ large.)
To: EveningStar
about 10 miles south of the girl's hometown of StellaI had guessed that it would be farther away than that. Perhaps the stepfather is innocent.
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:12:14 AM PST
by
PAR35
To: EveningStar
Alright, make room in the hand basket for me.
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:13:00 AM PST
by
BJClinton
(Don't taze me, bro!)
To: EveningStar
...an unfortunate industrial accident...Impossible. Some white heterosexual male or government agency is at fault.
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:13:25 AM PST
by
randog
(What the...?!)
To: EveningStar
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:13:34 AM PST
by
freekitty
((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
To: BJClinton
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:16:04 AM PST
by
FredHead47
(KIMI = World Champion 2007)
To: randog
I guess you could say his chips were down.
To: EveningStar
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.
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:21:11 AM PST
by
A. Patriot
(CZ 52's ROCK)
To: BurbankKarl
I guess you could say his chips were down. Nah. I'd say he crashed cashed in his chips.
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:24:46 AM PST
by
null and void
(No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
To: Vaquero
He’s kinda funny lookin’.
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:26:10 AM PST
by
abigailsmybaby
(I was born with nothing. So far I have most of it left.)
To: A. Patriot
Those hydraulic autofeeders are unforgiving. Tragic death.
To: EveningStar
“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.
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:30:33 AM PST
by
dljordan
To: EveningStar
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.
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:33:48 AM PST
by
DuncanWaring
(The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
To: A. Patriot
Yeah. Bad. Quick, but bad.
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:35:46 AM PST
by
null and void
(No more Bushes/No more Clintons)
To: FredHead47
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:39:51 AM PST
by
BJClinton
(Don't taze me, bro!)
To: EveningStar
I’m sorry to hear that. It’s so Fargo.
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posted on
11/09/2007 9:44:31 AM PST
by
Froufrou
To: BurbankKarl
Isn’t there a song “ I Go To Pieces “?
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posted on
11/09/2007 10:12:05 AM PST
by
Renegade
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