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Yeah, reading through the reports John sent, only 1% came from utilities.

Interesting to note that 75% of deaths occurred where there were no formal written safety procedures in place

I guess if you include line clearance, that’s probably a huge part of the trimming and pruning number

I’m kinda surprised that pruning had nearly double the incidents of felling. Does this list include home owners? That would make sense. The ladder and saw folks could be a bulk of that?!

I agree that the “steering” that can be done by taking hinge wood away in mid fall is negligible. Still, seen many do it. I figure that if I don’t have it right by the time the tree starts moving, there’s nothing I can do at the stump to improve it.

In some training seminars they’ve said something like “When felling, 90% of injuries or deaths happen within 15’ of the stump” (something like that). Does that mostly apply to production logging rather than urban removals? My observation is that loggers get as far and as fast as possible while...