Fall Into Wood Chipper Kills Tree Trimmer

(CBS/AP)  An Orange County tree trimmer feeding branches into a wood chipper was pulled into the shredding machine and killed.

The Los Angeles Times identified the victim as Gabriel Gonzales-Ferrer, 24.

Gonzales-Ferrer was "was standing at the back end of the chipper, throwing branches into it with his co-workers nearby," Tustin police Sgt. Pat Welch told the newspaper. "One of them looked over, and he was gone."

The Wednesday afternoon accident in Tustin is being investigated by the California Occupation and Safety Health Administration.

Police called to the residential area just after 4 p.m. found the landscape worker's body inside the wood chipper.

Wood chippers shred branches and tree trimmings into mulch.

Thirty-one people have been killed in wood chipper accidents between 1992 and 2002, according to a 2005 Journal of the American Medical Association report.

[zootallures2]

Saddam Hussein used to feed them in slowly. He didn''t waste money that could go to palaces on propaganda and rigged voting machines. Cost effective and right to the point.

[sgtrds]

Someone should point out to Bush how much easier trimming brush at his phony movie set "ranch" would be if he used a wood trimmer. If he''s as pathetic at that as he''s been at everything else then the world would soon have one less Bush to worry about.........

[toolmangler-2009]

That''''s gotta hurt.

Posted by Keithle1 at 07:44 PM : Nov 09, 2007


Probably happened so fast he never felt a thing. (I hope)

[sblake63]

" in an instant, he was gone forever! There but for the grace of God...

Posted by staycalm"

Yep, but for grace of gawd he drove to work and then god killed him, but that''''s ok because according to you right winge jezus freaks he is now sitting at da right hand of the lard in paradise forever, we should be CELEBRATING!!
Congratulations on your death Amigo, hope your family joins you with jezus just ASAP!!!



Posted by newster1 at 08:30 PM : Nov 09, 2007

Hahaha **** Alert here. I bet you had a big ole smile on your face while writing that thinking "got dem Jesus freaks good with this one" hahaha But, whets really going to be funny is when you pass away and stand before Christ and he says "I don''t know you", I wonder if that smile will still be there?

Lets see ya make fun of Satan to his face LOL, because if you don''t change this nonsense way of thinking, you''ll be meeting with him for sure. Us Jesus freaks will take your little jokes for now, but we shall have the last laugh. God Bless.

[nothappyatall]

"Thirty-one people have been killed in wood chipper accidents between 1992 and 2002, according to a 2005 Journal of the American Medical Association report.

There are usally 8-10 people working on a crew
FOR THE MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE WORKED ON THESE MACHINE
THAT IS A FANTASTIC SAFETY RECORD

More people are killed in swimming pools"

EXACTLY, people never look at the bigger picture, all they see is "32 people KILLED" 32 people out of millions in at least a decade.
Probably as many mechanics and others died being sucked into jet engines or killed by props on small planes at airports.

[nothappyatall]

"his name says nothing my parents are Hispanic and Im a citizen my daughter is a citizen but just because my last name and hers are Hispanic does not mean we dont know any English and our family lives her Mexico, we have a Mexican back round"
mbcsmith



Let''s see, Mexican last name, age 24, pushing tree limbs into a machine with a work crew, it all adds up to;
MEXICAN.
But you know, this must be one of dem lowly jobs they say Americans won''t take! and that only the illegals will work at happily for $2 an hour under the table.

[nothappyatall]

" in an instant, he was gone forever! There but for the grace of God...

Posted by staycalm"

Yep, but for grace of gawd he drove to work and then god killed him, but that''s ok because according to you right winge jezus freaks he is now sitting at da right hand of the lard in paradise forever, we should be CELEBRATING!!
Congratulations on your death Amigo, hope your family joins you with jezus just ASAP!!!

[keithle1]

That''s gotta hurt.

[toolmangler-2009]

"Fall Into Wood Chipper Kills Tree Trimmer"

I am sorry for his death, at least it happened so fast he probably didn''t feel a thing, but it wasn''t thee ''fall'' that killed him a the headline suggests. it was the obsrtuction in the hole that did it (chipper drum)

[zootallures2]

The ghost of Saddam !