Woodchippers strike again.

WARNING: this is likely in bad taste. Read at your own risk. You have been warned.


I have found yet another article on a woodchipper death. People you must stay away from these creatures. They are blood thirsty.

Article below.


A Colorado man died in a wood chipper on Dec. 28 while feeding branches into the machine.

According to the Associated Press, Brian Morse, 54, a tree-trimming service owner, was the accident victim.

Larimer County Coroner’s Office investigators pronounced him dead at the scene.

In 2000, a 33-year-old California worker died as he was loading pine and eucalyptus into a wood chipper. His coworkers were some distance away when they heard “strange” and “overloaded” noises.

A supervisor approached and realized that the worker had been pulled through the machine. The official cause of death was “total body fragmentation.”

In the 2005 incident, a coroner’s statement said only that Morse had died in “an industrial accident involving a commercial wood chipper.”

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration responded and will investigate whether the safety equipment on the wood chipper was working properly, according to Loveland Police Sgt. Rae Bontz.

Two men were trimming the tree when one was pulled into the chipper, Bontz said. The other, who had been cutting branches in a bucket truck, ran to the house at 2363 Fountain Drive, where they were working, and the woman who lives there called 911.

Police Chief Luke Hecker described the victim as experienced at his work.

Safety procedures call for a second worker to monitor a first when operating a wood chipper.

Sources: The Loveland (Colo.) Daily Reporter-Herald, www.landscapeonline.com