Brett Nelson, owner of Good Earth Tree Care in Grand Rapids, Michigan, suffered a serious fall from a tree and chose to share his experience with us. The available information suggests there might be unanticipated issues associated with his climbing [...]

AN EXCERPT FROM TCIA'S "BEST PRACTICES FOR STUMP GRINDER OPERATIONS IN ARBORICULTURE" – CHAPTER SIX. A stump grinder is a heavy-duty machine designed to cut the wood fibers of a tree stump and buttress roots using immense power from a [...]

The first two items occurred in August 2021, but were not included in the Accident Briefs for the month of August in the October 2021 issue of TCI. Type & number of incidents for August and September 2021 Tree worker [...]

Type & number of incidents for August 2021 Man electrocuted using pole saw A man died after he was shocked while trimming trees from a ladder August 13, 2021, near Minneapolis, Minnesota. The Sherburne County Sheriff’s Office reported that Noah [...]

Fire departments often find that tree-worker rescue might be a blind spot for them. Photos courtesy of the author. About two years ago, Kevin Lunnie, co-founder of Vector Rescue, and his business partner, James Croswell, started looking at the kind [...]