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    Cleveland man dies in tree accident

    http://www.clevelandbanner.com/index.cfm?event=news.view&id=9F9E77F3-19B9-E2E2-678A6B597CCBC7B2 A local businessman died Tuesday afternoon while removing a tree from property in Hickory Hills. The accident occurred shortly before 5 p.m. Bradley County Fire Rescue officials along with...
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    Worker pulled into wood chipper

    I heard from Mr. Mather in Australia, apparently, they never produced a commercial product. It has never been tested in the field. Since this thread has brought up so many unsubstantiated claims, I have contacted the largest manufacturers of chippers in the U.S. to get more information All of...
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    Worker pulled into wood chipper

    [ QUOTE ] Prove you wrong? Anyone who's run an 1800 vermeer knows the reverse bar has three positions looking from behind, forward is reverse, the mid position is neutral, and if you pull, it feeds. You somehow disagree with this truth BB? jomoco [/ QUOTE ] From the Vermeer 1800 chipper...
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    Safety and liability

    The number of chipper-related fatalities in the tree care profession is significantly higher than what NIOSH has reported and some have parroted here. They happen about twice a month with a majority of them being caused by workers sticking their feet into the infeed area. The data come from...
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    Two Western Pa. women shocked by fallen power line

    Re: Civil Suit Against Allegheny Power Filed In Death I concur; the one on my desk has spider webs inside the end that the wire pulled out, indicating that it had not been installed properly. These connectors are a potential weakness in the system and when present, should remind folks to be...
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    Two Western Pa. women shocked by fallen power line

    Civil Suit Against Allegheny Power Filed In Death Take a close look at the slide show. Notice the connecting link that they used, which failed. This is the second time that I have seen one of these pull out. The first is sitting on my desk and caused an outage, but, thankfully, no injury...
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    Safety and liability

    BB et al, Since we don't seem to be able to get any answers on efficacy/effectiveness of theses RFID chippers I have contacted the major U.S. chipper manufacturers and the Australian one that sells them. I will discuss with them and perhaps visit to see the chippers in action. I will post my...
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    Landscaper killed when struck in head by tree limb

    http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20090905/COMMUNITIES/90904069/1005/NEWS01 WASHINGTON TWP. -- A landscaper died Friday after a tree limb fell on his head, police said. Police responded to a home in the Port Murray section of the township at about 10 a.m. after receiving a 911 call about CPR...
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    Worker pulled into wood chipper

    It is odd that a person who admits that he has held a patent related to chippers thinks I am on the payroll of the chipper makers. "Me thinks thou dost protest too much." After reading fatality reports, talking to witnesses, discussing with Dr. John Ball and witnessing unsafe behaviors at the...
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    Worker pulled into wood chipper

    Just because someone is experienced doesn't mean that they do things safely. Even if they follow safe practices "most" of the time, one poor decision (sticking a body part into a chipper) can cost them their lives. The point you keep coming back to, about an incapacitated worker isn't entirely...
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    Safety and liability

    So you discussed this with the legal counsel of Morbark? You know for a fact that is why they settled?
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    Safety and liability

    Seeing as we had stopped discussing the chipper fatality but were not done with this topic, I decided to start a new thread out of respect for the worker who died feeding himself into the chipper. The comparison of chain brakes on chain saws and RFID technology on chippers is comparing apples...
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    Worker pulled into wood chipper

    Lapaz man remembered by wife after wood chipper Interesting to note that this is the second chipper fatality that this company has had. "Lapaz man remembered by wife after wood chipper accident" http://www.breitbart.com/voxant.php?id=3782332
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    Worker pulled into wood chipper

    Family of man killed by brush chipper settles Contrary to what Jomoco stated about the lawsuits, this is usually the outcome. In this case, the worker was misusing the chipper "His foot was caught in the chipper when he used it to try dislodging a stuck log," and they had not checked to make...
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    Worker pulled into wood chipper

    Re: Worker pulled into wood Jomoco, How long have you been using a chipper that employs RFID technology as part of the safety mechanism?
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    Worker pulled into wood chipper

    Re: Worker pulled into wood From the March edition of TCI Magazine: http://www.treecareindustry.org/PDFs/TCI_Mag_Mar_09.pdf An ongoing research project on tree worker safety being conducted by South Dakota State University (SDSU) indicatets hat chipper fatalities are occurring sometimes as...
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    Leslie man killed in accident

    http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2009/09/leslie_man_killed_in_accident.html A 32-year employee of the Ingham County Road Commission and Leslie resident was killed Tuesday when he was accidentally hit by a truck, the Ingham County Sheriff's Office said. Thomas James Doyle was 54...
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    Worker pulled into wood chipper

    Police believe man was killed in chipper (update) http://www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090902/NEWS/909020324 Police believe man was killed in wood chipper Kosciusko County investigators using DNA, dental records to confirm victim's identity. A Plymouth man is dead...
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    Man injured while cutting tree at church

    http://www.neshobademocrat.com/main.asp?...amp;TM=65093.57 A Collinsville man was airlifted Tuesday morning to the University Medical Center in Jackson after he was seriously injured while cutting a tree near a Philadelphia church. Manuel Costilla with Charles Tree Service in Collinsville was...
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    Worker pulled into wood chipper

    Re: Worker pulled into wood [ QUOTE ] Then please answer my question TMW. What's your rationale for not putting a safety system on a whole tree chipper that is capable of preventing an incapacitated operator from being chipped alive? [/ QUOTE ] Two things; 1. From my earlier comment: [...

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