Two More Deaths in FL

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Treeman14

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I just heard of two more recent deaths in central Florida.

March 25, 2002: Guy working in the bucket dropped a limb on ground man.

Last week or two, guy pushed a tree over with tractor onto his brother.

Both were experienced tree workers.
 
I heard 80 or 90% of the fatalities in this business occcur within the first 6 months or after 10 years... I had a little run in with complacency last year... You can recognize complacency the first time you have a thought like..... " this is OK because I never got hurt before"... when the truth is the reason you never got hurt before is that you weren't thinking like that.
 
Both sound like very tragic deaths, yet also sound like they could have been easily prevented with the implementation of some relatively simple safety policies.
 
That statistic comes from an accident analysis doen at Davey a number of years ago, the figures I herd were a spike in 2-3 years and 8-10 years.
 

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