Los Angeles area fatality

[BurOakTom]

A 20-year worker fell from a palm and died yesterday, Monday, 1 Dec.

I hesitate linking to the NY Post since it's a sensationalistic gossip rag, but of 5-6 media sources I checked it's the only one that includes several details (which seem likely to be correct) -- that this was an occupational accident (not the property owner), that he was on rope, and -- worst of all, after the fatality itself -- that two of his brothers were on site :-(

Experienced tree trimmer dead in freak impalement accident

A California tree trimmer with 20 years experience is dead in a freak accident — when he plummeted 35 feet and impaled himself on an iron fence.

nypost.com

Really rough time for the family...

 

[Mick Dempsey!]

Terrible story.
Back in the day I worked in London nearly every day, those cast iron Victorian fences with spiked tops were ubiquitous.
They always gave me the heebees. You didn’t even have to take a fall, even a slip ans a drop of a few feet could end nastily.

 

[flushcut]

Helluva way to go! Godspeed! I think I’ll start carrying rebar safety caps in the truck.

 

[Treezybreez]

Horribly way to go. I will pray for his family.

I wonder what, “his rope got loose from the tree” means? Anchor failure?

 

[ATH]

Helluva way to go! Godspeed! I think I’ll start carrying rebar safety caps in the truck.

A horrible way to go,.and really bad for those around to have to witness.

Having said that...it says 35' fall. That's a high probability of fatality with or without a fence.

Safety caps are still a good idea!

 

[evo]

Totally a horrible way to go. It doesn’t take much on these fences. We have one that takes out at least two deer per year, half get ran through the other half have their necks get hung up between the pickets.
Whenever I can I remove all rebar and tee posts below the tree, even though the odds a minuscule. One first has to fall out of the tree, then land in the wrong spot, but why the hell not.
We aren’t blocking hordes of invading armies. It’s just a boundary marker or plant stake

 

[Bart_]

I only ever did one dead ash above a pointy iron fence and it weighed on my mind the whole time. Article said it was a family tree business. no words are enough to say.. sad

 

[flushcut]

A horrible way to go,.and really bad for those around to have to witness.

Having said that...it says 35' fall. That's a high probability of fatality with or without a fence.

Safety caps are still a good idea!

Agreed.