Twenty-seven-year-old Tree-care Worker Killed by Falling Branch

A 27-year-old ground crewman at a tree care company was struck and killed by a 38-pound cut branch. On the day of the incident, the decedent and two other workers were felling an approximately 80-foot-tall ash tree on a farm in northern New Jersey. One worker was cutting branches from about 60 feet up in the tree and the other two workers were on the ground using chainsaws and a woodchipper to process felled branches. The worker in the tree signaled to the two below that a branch was about to be cut (free-fall […]