More bad news stateside...

[treequip]

would you stick your leg in a great whites mouth if somebody didn't give you a course on working with sharks

 

 

:thumbdown:

No I cant swim.

[fuzzyturns]

That is a tragedy for everyone around the incident, poor kid just trying to earn a crust, and that happens.

 

As for people with their Darwin theories, have you no heart?

 

I do have a heart, and I feel for the grieving family. At the same time, I am with Steve: Darwin rules. Stupid is as stupid does. Trying to kick a log into a chipper is about on the same level as trying to stop a rolling car with your bare hands or checking whether your chain is sharp with your bare fingers. Clearly, common sense was very much absent in this case.

That doesn't absolve the company owner (for lack of supervision and/or training), but ultimately everybody has to accept responsibility for their own actions.

[richy_B]

Wrestling with a twisted limb. Something we've probably all seen a dozen times. Experience tells you it's a bad a idea but Poor sod didn't get the opportunity of hind sight.

[hiluxstihl]

as a matter of interest would everyone on here only let a newbie feed a chipper if they were nptc qualified? company trained? what would be your criteria??

[Ty Korrigan]

I would be wary of letting a new untried and inexperienced employee work alone feeding even a wee GM CS100 let alone a 125hp 15" BC1500.

Ty

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

I would be wary of letting a new untried and inexperienced employee work alone feeding even a wee GM CS100 let alone a 125hp 15" BC1500.

 

Ty

 

 

👍🏻

 

You can delegate the task, but not the responsibility.

[Taupotreeman]

would you stick your leg in a great whites mouth if somebody didn't give you a course on working with sharks

 

 

Isn't the same thing by any stretch. Guy here in NZ did exactly the same thing and lost his leg. The company was prosecuted for removing the safety features I.e. The in feed tray was removed to make digger feeding easier. How do you know what is right and wrong if you haven't been shown? Shoving stuff in with your foot might make perfect sense to someone rather than leaning in and pushing stuff in and pushing debris in with a stick may have not even entered his mind. First day on the job and all that.

[danroker1987]

Very sad , poor boy! condolences to family !

[tree-fancier123]

there was another one in the states a while back, even bigger chipper, bloke got pulled right through

 

Man Dies in "Horrifying" Wood Chipper Accident | NBC 6 South Florida

 

'According to OSHA, from 2000 to 2013, there were 11 wood chipper deaths in the United States, none of them in the state of Florida'

[Stefan Palokangas]

No words ! don't even want to think about it. Horrible for all involved