A tree-company owner was seriously injured in a fall December 18, 2024, in Issaquah, Washington. Dustin Gerstner, of Bothell, Wash., and a 15-year arborist, was 20 feet up in a large cedar he planned to cut. He moved to a neighboring maple for safety and reported that he was watching the cedar when he felt the maple starting to fall, according to a KIRO 7 report. Gerstner said he dropped his saw and scrambled around to the other side of the maple so he would be on top of it rather than under it when it hit the ground. Gerstner was able to stand up after the fall, but said he insisted paramedics be called as he could sense “something was going on in my stomach.” He wound up intubated in the ICU at Harborview Medical Center with internal bleeding, a spinal fracture and broken hips, and was hospitalized for 10 days, according to the KIRO 7 report.