A volunteer working for Illinois Disaster Relief was struck and killed by a tree he was cutting May 9, 2023, in Streater, Illinois.Wayne Laechelt, 67, of Sugar Grove, Ill., was an Illinois Baptist Relief volunteer working at a Baptist camp [...]
A Virginia Department of Transportation worker was seriously injured when he was struck by a car while removing a tree that had fallen across a road May 9, 2023, in Washington County, Virginia. The unidentified worker, age 58, was wearing [...]
A climber was injured while suspended in a tree May 13, 2023, in Ventura County, California. The worker appeared to have suffered leg or arm injuries while approximately 50 feet up. He was rescued by local firefighters using an aerial-laddertruck, [...]
A man was injured when he cut himself with a chain saw while in a tree May 13, 2023, in Vernon, Connecticut. Emergency personnel gave the man a tourniquet to apply, and he was able to get down from the [...]
A worker died when he fell out of a tree May 15, 2023, in Nashua, New Hampshire. Amilcar Lopez-Garcia, 29, was working for a Massachusetts-based landscaping company when he fell 30 feet from a tree. First responders attempted life-saving measures, [...]






