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20- September Safety Review: Five Incidents, Five Lessons
September 2026 brought several serious and fatal incidents involving workers across landscaping, tree care, forestry, and grounds maintenance.
In this monthly safety review, we briefly examine five incidents: a sawyer struck by a falling snag in Oregon, a New York landscaper who died after falling from a work truck, a 19-year-old tree-trimming contractor struck and killed by a vehicle in Georgia, a landscaper electrocuted during tree work on Long Island, and a mower operator who survived after sliding into a pond and becoming trapped beneath his equipment.
For each case, we focus on one…
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