Personal protective equipment, or PPE, is what you need when everything else has gone wrong. You don’t need a helmet until your head has been impacted by an outside force, usually a branch stub. You don’t need cut-resistant leg protection [...]

Cameron Martins, a climber and equipment operator with Stanley Tree Service, Inc., a dual-accredited, 32-year TCIA member company in Smithfield, Rhode Island, sporting his Pit Viper, Z87-rated eye protection on the job. Photo courtesy of Stanley Tree Service, Inc. Bruce [...]

Minor injuries suspected when aerial lift tips An aerial lift being used for line-clearance tree trimming tipped over January 6, 2022, on the shoulder of a road in Hayden, Idaho, taking down power lines and causing a power outage to [...]

Proper fall protection is a must when working in an aerial-lift bucket. Too often, aerial-lift operators die from a fall after they choose not to wear fall protection. Here, a Harrison McPhee employee puts on a safety harness prior to [...]

Type & number of incidents for November 2021 The first item describes an incident that was not reported in TCI Magazine’s “Accident Briefs” when it occurred in 2020. Two injured when rope feeds into chipper Two tree workers were injured [...]