Guy killed by chipper, USA

[ben lightfoot]

someone recently lost half their foot through a chipper in the uk

[Ty Korrigan]

With respect Ben and I don't mean this personally but urban hearsay is not fact.

"My uncles mates cousin friends girlfriends boyfriend lost a head in a chipper" will do the rounds no doubt.

Often its the same story gone Jackanory and before you know it we all know of some-one when actually its no-one.

Do we actually have statistics? Sources of info? Who collates this info?

Its like other myth, the "one third of us will die of cancer"

Well blow me, I think I'll just jump into the chipper tomorrow or brush my teeth with a 200t.

I have a very healthy respect for chippers, in fact I have a regular recurring nightmare in which a gang of gypsies throw my terrier into one and I can't kill them because they are protected by law as thieving and killing is their Socialist Government given right as an ethnic minority.

I'm not mad...really.

Ty

[Ty Korrigan]

I'm browsing for info:

http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg278.pdf

[Ty Korrigan]

Shaun Talbot talks about the accident in which he lost an arm (From The Northern Echo)

[ben lightfoot]

Well considering i heard it off two people whom have no contact or relation to one another gave the same details about it and the same company name, i think it may well have happened

[Tree cutter Stu]

Well considering i heard it off two people whom have no contact or relation to one another gave the same details about it and the same company name, i think it may well have happened

 

I can back ben up on this one its not hear say its fact

[Ty Korrigan]

O.K...

I've been googling around to find info on chipper incidents.

Almost nothing from the U.K in recent years that is publicly available.

I get the impression from reading on State side forums that there are many older chipper designs still in use, ones which lack some of the safety features of U.K versions.

Perhaps Easy Lift Guy can tell us more...?

Ty

[Ty Korrigan]

Can you find any reporting anywhere?

I imagine that if it was a foot injury then serious operator error rather just an unlucky chance is the cause.

No-one feeds sharks with a biscuit held between their teeth after all.

Ty

[ben lightfoot]

I have to admit that when i first heard about it i thought it was not true and tried to search as i thought these things are usually in the media but on hearing from someone else i do believe it now.

 

In the states i believe that the chippers in use are not older the just dont have the safety features that we require to the certain standard in the uk. Sometimes people buying chippers from the states do have to modify some parts to allow them to be "legal" over here

[PhilBeech]

Homegrown Timber lost a guy on the railway some years ago I believe? Foot into chipper.