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Link Posted: 5/10/2016 5:19:27 PM EDT
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Safest way to operate a chipper is with an excavator.

After that, at least two people. One controlling the chipper one putting the branches in.

If a good size branch catches you, and you're alone... You're SOL.
Link Posted: 5/10/2016 5:27:28 PM EDT
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Similar thing happened in my neck of the woods the other day, poor kid (23y/o) got dragged into a chipper on his first damn day on the job.



http://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-dies-in-tree-grinder-accident-during-first-day-on-the-job/




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Similar thing happened in my neck of the woods the other day, poor kid (23y/o) got dragged into a chipper on his first damn day on the job.



http://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-dies-in-tree-grinder-accident-during-first-day-on-the-job/




GUILDERLAND, N.Y. - Officials say a man on his first day on the job cutting down trees in an Albany suburb has died after he became entangled in a tree grinding machine.



Police in Guilderland, New York, say the 23-year-old man had been removing large trees Wednesday in front of a home when he fell into a wood chipper.
Same thing in Iowa last summer.  First day on the job

 







OSHA fined the company $1,500
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