Tree trimmer dies during Ill. storm cleanup

[TMW]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-stormcleanup-cont,0,4699310.story

CARBONDALE, Ill. - Authorities in Carbondale say the cleanup from severe storms that raked southern Illinois earlier this month has killed a professional tree trimmer from Florida.

Jackson County Coroner Thomas Kupferer says 38-year-old Samuel Casey of Lithia, Fla., was working Thursday morning to remove a tree when it fell the wrong way and landed on top of him. He died at a hospital.

It's the second death in southern Illinois related to the May 8 storm and its aftermath. Eighty-seven-year old George Arbeiter was killed during the storm when a tree limb crashed through his Murphysboro home and onto his head, knocking him down a flight of stairs.

 

[southsoundtree]

I worked this storm. We tried to find details. Sounded like, maybe, he was visiting family in Carbondale, when this very sudden "inland hurricane" (as called by NOAA/ National Weather Service) hit. Sounds like he was help in his family with damage at the time of the accident. Details are few.

The first death was resident when a tree fell on the house. Quick death. An old guy with Alzheimer's Disease.