Two brothers were seriously injured after falling more than 40 feet to the ground during a tree-trimming accident in Ponca City, Oklahoma, July 15, 2026. A cable on the bucket truck they were in broke, causing them to fall. One [...]

A longtime employee of the City of Decatur, Alabama, was hit by a falling limb while responding to storm damage July 19, 2026; the worker later died. The man was clearing a fallen tree limb when he was struck by [...]

A 31-year-old tree-service worker, Erik Reyna-Wright, was fatally electrocuted while on the job in Exeter Township, Pennsylvania, June 10, 2026, when he came into contact with an electrical power line while trimming a hedgerow. The cause of death was ruled [...]

June 15, 2026, a 52-year-old arborist was killed after a branch from a nearby tree fell and struck him in the head in the village of Edwardsburg, Mich. No further details have been released.

On June 2, 2026, 42-year-old Ryan Jenny, of Houston, Pennsylvania, died on the job after officials said a tree snapped while he was cutting it down in Washington Country. He had been hired to remove the tree at a residence [...]