A Real Bad Way To Go
 

Talk about an "oh *****" moment. That could not have been pleasant.

if he went head first , it was pretty quick.
Now the other way..that would have felt like forever.

Rika

just no way for that to be anything but bad.

Do you think it'll be an open baggy funeral?

I saw that. Probably not actually painful, except for anyone who might have witnessed it.

Must have really left a mark. I always thought that the Coen Bros. were sick bastards for putting that in "Fargo".

the spelling would be "baggie" I believe, and you, sir, are going to burn in hell :p

I like the part that states "they are still looking for people that may have see the accident"

At what point could you see this happen and say "hmmm I wonder if dinners ready" and not call someone????

Working in the paper industry for 30+ years I always got a thrill and a little uneasy walking by the chipper. Takes up to a 30" X 4' log and chips it in 2 -3 seconds. It would have been a very quick way to end it all and the chips are in the digester within minutes after that.

That chipper in the picture looks like rear feed, how did he FALL into that?

At least he was already dead...

Maybe it wasn't an accident/unintentional. Or he tossed in a long branch and the machine grabbed it with him still holding on. What a scary way to go. I'd guess if he went in feet first or sideways there would be a second or two of real pain but then the body would *shutdown* the sensors...hopefully... Tools like those are freaky dangerous.

What goes threw the mind the split second before you realize what is going to happen? Ouch.

in this case, probably his pelvis

Wonder if he had his safety shoes on??

Now YOU sir, are going to burn in Hell :):):)

If you went in any way but head first, no matter the pain and if you had the slightest cognizance wouldn't you be scrambling to hold onto ANYTHING...which would only prolong the agony (and the horror) a moment or two?

Gawd, what a way to go.

You looking for a used pair?

I've worked with a chipper like that, and it had a safety bar across the back that would shut it off when tripped. Between that and the distance from the back of the chipper to the cutting heads, you'd have to try to get in there.

I'm sure his wife misses him very mulch.

That's bad.:D

Should have been some type of a safety mechanism on it.
I don't know what though.
Poor guy just doing a day's work. To bad for his family.

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The chippers that I see on the street like that do seem to be rear feed, so I wondered how he could fall out of a tree and into it.

My thought was that maybe in the interest of efficiency, he somehow aimed the opening upward, climbed up into the tree, then cut the branches, dropping them directly into the chipper! In theory would have been a good plan.

I would think if you went in feet first you would pass out pretty quick, the brain would shut you down.
But, I have always wondered if, when the French would use the big blade to cut your head off, would it hurt that split second when your nose hit the bottom of the basket?

I knew a guy that fell into a wood chipper and lost his left arm and left leg. He's all right now.

Ohhhhh that was bad. Shame on me.

Maybe he was helped to fall into the chipper.

I saw a movie once where the bad guys had a big vat of acid. They would slowly lower people into it with an overhead crane. I wonder which would be worse.

Sammy. You should always think before you (com)post.

Ashes to ashes and sawdust to sawdust...

Actually you would have a fair bit of time to ponder your headlessness. Sometimes the executioner would grab the severed head and turn it to the body so the executed could admire his work.

How much is 'a fair bit of time'?

Twenty to thirty seconds have been documented.

It happens more than you know.
TUESDAY, Aug. 15, 2006, 9:32 p.m.
By Bob Purvis

Man killed in wood chipper accident
A 30-year-old man was killed this afternoon when he was sucked into a wood chipper while trying to shake loose a piece of wood that had jammed it.

The man owned a tree service company working in the 8900 block of 26th Ave. in Pleasant Prairie, according to a Pleasant Prairie Police Department press release.

The man was using his foot to clear debris that had jammed the wood chipper around 5:20 p.m. when his foot became entangled in the machine, witnesses told police.

His coworkers tried to rescue him from the intake, but he was pulled into and through the wood chipper, according to the release.

The incident remains under investigation by Pleasant Prairie detectives, the Kenosha County Medical Examiner's office and officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Police withheld the man's name while they attempted to notify his family.

Injury Associated with Working Near
or Operating Wood Chippers
Description of Hazard


According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), 11 workers lost their lives during 1992 through 1997 while working near mobile wood chippers. In seven of the incidents, the victim was caught by the feed mechanism and pulled through the chipper knives. The victims in four of the incidents were struck by hoods (guards that cover the rotating chipper knives) that separated from the machines after being improperly opened or closed while knives were still rotating.

During 1998, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) received two additional reports of worker deaths from operating wood chippers. These incidents illustrate the two most common causes of fatal injury: being fed through the chipper knives or being struck by the chipper disc hood. The incidents were investigated as part of the NIOSH Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program.

They have trees in Ingle-hood?

When did this happen?

AP) A man trimming trees was killed after he apparently was pulled into a wood chipper, police said.

The tree-service employee died Wednesday while he and a co-worker were cutting branches at a Loveland residence, Police Sgt. Rae Bontz said.

"It appears he was pulled into the chipper," Bontz said. He described the death as an industrial accident but released no other details, saying police were investigating.

After the accident, the man's partner, who was cutting branches from a bucket on a hydraulic lift, ran to the house where they were working, and a resident called emergency services. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police did not release either man's name. Police Chief Luke Hecker said the victim was experienced at his work.

The Larimer County coroner and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration also are investigating.

A 19-year-old San Jose man died Sunday morning when he accidentally fell into a wood chipper while working on a tree-trimming crew near North First Street and Highway 237.
San Jose fire officials said that at about 11 a.m. Miguel Marquez of San Jose was standing on the tailgate of the wood chipper machine when some tree debris got stuck in the chute. As Marquez tried to kick the jammed wood through the chute, both his feet and legs were pulled into the high-powered thrasher. He bled to death of massive injuries.

``He was sucked into the shredder,'' said Capt. Allison Cabral of the San Jose Fire Department. ``By the time our crew got to him he was dead.''

Cabral said Marquez, who has family in Mexico and a father in the San Jose area, was part of a three-person crew. His co-workers were clearing branches in a tree at the time and did not see the accident.

They immediately called 911 from a cell phone, but cell phone calls to 911 are routed through the California Highway Patrol offices in Vallejo, and such calls do not automatically inform dispatchers of locations. Law enforcement officials advise residents to program the numbers of their local police and fire departments into their cell phones in case of emergencies.

``They called 911, and the fire department went out there as quickly as they could, but the young man was pronounced dead at the scene,'' said Sgt. Steve Dixon of the San Jose Police Department. ``It was very tragic, and the men on the work crew were pretty shaken up.''

Cabral said Marquez worked for a tree-trimming company called Ag Science, and the crew was working outside of Novellus Systems at First Street and Vista Montana.

A spokesman at Cal-OSHA's Fremont office said the agency would investigate.

Marquez's family

There was a murder a few years ago like that except I think she was dead before her husband put her through the chipper. He shot the particles out into a pond to hide the evidence. They nailed his ass anyway:D

I think the guys name was Richard Craft and it was in CT, he had rented a chipper and ran her through it, then cleaned it real well and returned it.:D

BBQ tonight anyone?

I found a pair in Inglewood they still had the feet in them

Anyone have his wifes phone number?

OMG!!! "Documented".....Holy cats, documented by whom? Wow...can you interview the severed head or something? How would one know that the head is actually cognizant during this interval?

Holy Crap...that gives me the creeps!!


JA

The French were pretty curious about this. On occasion, a French scientist would ask the condemned to blink after being guillotined. Twenty or thirty seconds was common. Also they could sometimes follow you with their eyes and mouth words.

In England, deaf people were sometimes said to read the lips of the executed to record the last "words".