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    November 4, 2024

    A tree worker was injured by a falling limb or tree while felling a tree November 4, 2024, in Asheville, North Carolina. A contracted tree crew was cutting a tree at the Biltmore Estate when it fell into another tree, [...]

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    November 18, 2024

    A loader operator was struck and killed by a tree November 18, 2024, in Covington, Georgia. Jeffrey Marcellus Smith, 54, of Covington, was helping a homeowner clear a wooded area. Smith was inside a Bobcat when he was struck in [...]

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    January 4, 2025

    A man was killed after being struck by a tree branch January 4, 2025, in Lawrenceburg, Tennessee. Dwight Johnson, 50, of Lawrenceburg, and three of his sons were working on a project when he spotted a branch in the way. [...]

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    January 25, 2025

    A college student helping a property owner clear storm-felled trees died January 25, 2025, in Anderson, South Carolina, after being crushed under the root plate of one of the trees. Ethan Alexander Ackerman, 20, of Central, S.C., and two friends, [...]

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    January 26, 2025

    A motorist was injured when a large tree felled by a tree crew dropped into the street, striking her passing vehicle January 26, 2025, in Chattanooga, Tenn. Firefighters built cribbing to lift the tree off the car pinned beneath it [...]

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