Tree work is among the highest-risk professions in the United States. The hazards are numerous, with fatal and severe nonfatal incidents involving more than 80 different sources, from assault by an angry neighbor upset about sawdust coming down into his or her yard to a winch cable snapping and striking a chipper operator. This article continues with the event category "Contact with Objects or Equipment" - the category that accounts for most deaths among tree workers - focusing here on caught-in or compressed-by incidents.
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