Redwoods are really big Widow Makers.
The lumber industry, coal mining, and commercial fishing are in the top 10 industries for most fatalities.
I live in a heavily forested area. I have cleared the land around my house of trees. Around here we are heavily loaded up with black locust which in my opinion is a trash tree. However, it is probably one of the most rot resistant woods there are, along with cedar.
Black locust often have dead limbs, and around here we call those limbs widow makers. And of course both black locust and cedar are profligate in there ability to reproduce. If you leave land fallow, with in a year or two it will be covered in black locust or cedar.
The only thing good I can say about Black Locust is that it makes great fence posts what will last a half century or more. It is hard as nails, and burns hot and clean. It makes just about the best firewood, even better thank Oak. I