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Episode 10- The Wheel Never Stopped: A Fatal Stump Grinder Accident
A routine landscaping job. A commercial stump grinder. And a few seconds between one task and the next that ended in tragedy.
In this episode of the Landscaping Safety Podcast, we break down the July 5, 2023 death of a 40-year-old landscaper working on Lane Road in Perry Township, Ohio.
Initial news reports described a worker who had been critically injured while operating tree-removal equipment. The later OSHA investigation revealed much more: the worker was moving a stump grinder across uneven terrain with a slight downward slope while the cutting wheel remained fully activated. He became…
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