Posted on 10/11/2022 6:42:57 PM PDT by Kevin in California
A tree trimmer was killed Tuesday in the San Francisco Bay Area after he fell into a wood chipper, authorities said. The man, whose name has not been released, was working in the city of Menlo Park shortly before 1 p.m. when he fell, police said. Officers arrived to find the man dead from injuries sustained after his fall. The state's Division of Occupational Safety and Health is investigating the man's death. Menlo Park is about 25 miles (40.23 kilometers) south of San Francisco.
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All kidding aside...how does one fall into wood chipper?
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It is Gravity, soon to be outlawed (after heavy taxing) by Nuesome.
No surprise.
The creepiest thing about that image is that you don’t realize it’s a moving...at first.
Then it would be called dragged/pulled (not fallen) into the chipper. Pretty hard to fall into one unless he fell out of the tree and into it but I doubt it.
At the end of the day, not a good way to go.
How many limbs were lost?
All......
Kevin, that make a slot of sense, but if a guy is there
and gets caught on something, he’s still going to fall
into the chipper.
It may be as simple as the guy talking being kind of shaken
up and using imprecise language.
It may be that there was another scenario also.
Naw it worked itself out.
Moving machinery is just dangerous.
I dated a girl once who was nearly killed when she was operating a lathe, and her long tied up hair came loose by accident. The lathe caught it and in the blink of an eye, pulled her down, brained her, and partially scalped her. She recovered well with no visible scars, but boy, her description of the incident sure bugged me out.
Many people don’t know Admiral Chester Nimitz lost part of his ring finger in an accident as a young officer. He was at the forefront of submarine propulsion development in the US Navy, responsible for the transition from gasoline base engines to diesel engines after WWI. He was showing some visiting dignitaries an engine with exposed gears, and he pointed at it with his gloved hand. He didn’t realize the glove extended as far as it did and pulled his hand in. The only thing that saved him was his Naval Academy ring, which jammed the gears.
It was kind of ironic, given that his chief opponent in WWII (Yamamoto) was also missing fingers on his right hand.
Yes, equipment can be very dangerous.
Sometimes it’s not as obvious as it is, because the device
doesn’t seem capable of hurting you that much on first
blush.
People really need to be singularly focused when working
around tools. Everything from a lawnmower to a trimmer
can take its toll.
When pointing, you don’t have to almost touch it. Point
in the direction from a foot away, and use words for the
rest.
Thanks for the mention. It was interesting that both those
guys had finger issues.
The big commercial wood chippers are very powerful.
They can suck in a 3” thick branch in a second.
If you get caught, you will be pulled right in with it.
lol ikr?
It can happen if they fail to maintain control of their ropes. Ropes are often fastened to a harness. Tag end of the rope ends up under the brush pile, brush is fed into the chipper and off to the races. The safety bar on the chipper that stops the infeed rolls may not help because the rope may become fouled in the chipper disk and still pull the worker in. Grusome way to go, not something you want to witness either during or after.
Wood chippers...the pit bulls of gardening. I’m equally afraid of both.
I remember when I was young a garbage collector got caught in the machinery somehow. They had just left our apartment, and was down the street next to another complex. Me and my friends were playing I the field, when the screaming started. From what everyone was talking about the when the ambulance came, he lost his arm up to the shoulder.
Me being 8, would make that 1964
What was Yamamoto's story? How did he lose those fingers?
Regards,
I have seen a photo, posted as a safety reminder, of someone who was not so lucky. To say it’s not pretty is a massive understatement. Another source of similar mayhem is the power take off on farm tractors, along with hay balers.
Happened not far from me. For an accident like this, what tools does one use to clean up the accident scene? I’m guessing either a scraper or a shop vac.
Flies.
A former classmate of mine from high school worked in his Dad’s trash pickup business and somehow the scoop in the rear of the truck dragged him in, and then he got compacted. He did not survive.
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