Have you ever had a moment that you swear you experienced before? You are engrossed in a task or talking with someone and suddenly you have this fleeting thought that you have done or said this before. This phenomenon, called deja vu, is something that everyone has experienced. This is what I think I am experiencing when I look at the annual statistics regarding tree worker fatal incidents. I get the feeling that I have seen all this before; nothing has changed. Only it is not just a perception, it'sreality. If you look at tree worker fatal incidents 10 years ago, both their frequency and type, it is not much different than now. Certainly the incident rate is not decreasing; if anything it may be increasing. This may just be related to the fact that more government agencies and people are looking at tree worker fatalities. The incident rate in any occupation that comes under the microscope seems to increase not because more are happening, but that more are discovered. But clearly the number of fatal incidents in the tree care industry is not going down.
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