I had my palms trimmed a few years back. The trimmer guy had a truck with a bucket that extended up to the fronds. I told him I was thinking about climbing up to trim them myself after getting the crazy price quotes. It was $800 a tree times six of them. After talking to him, he told me that these trees were among the deadliest to trim for this exact reason. Glad I didn't attempt it myself.
@@gr8dvd The "skirt" is interlocked fronds, years and years of them, all around the trunk. It's like a tube that slides down the trunk when it falls. In a palm tree trimmer accident, the weight of the fallen mass of the frond "skirt" traps the victim between the skirt and the trunk of the tree, compresses the rib cage and the victim can't inhale deeply enough to survive long.
@@gr8dvdIt happens a lot believe it not. Palms are extremely dangerous. Not only can the palm canopy slide down on you, but they usually have bees, bats, wasps, scorpions and snakes living in them. When they have a lot of foliage on them like that anyways 🫣 Sad to hear, my heart goes out to the family 😢
@@weskelly4538 I've been climbing for 20 years now. I've seen a lot. If the tree requires getting off the ground it's not worth it. One of my customers hired me after breaking his back and having to be air lifted, and another one hired me after a broken forearm where the bone was protruding from the skin. 🫣
@@FauxQue-yk8dtor maybe since he was trapped under these heavy palm fronds he died due to compression and not being able to expand his rib cage. So maybe he died from the tree .
Nowhere does it say that anything to do with the tree or trimming it caused his passing, only that he was unconscious up in the tree. He could have had a heart attack up there and become unconscious, that's why we need to wait for the autopsy report
@@lindaparker1043another comment said this tree had a large skirt of dead palm fronds. He was tied to the tree and cut the base of the dead fronds, but this caused them to slide down as one big weight and crush him against the trunk.
@@lindaparker1043 they suffocate or get crushed. The skirt collapses and they become encased in the tree and can’t move. Years ago I was watching them try to rescue someone. They were showing it live. After cutting away for a long time they finally reached the man and he popped out and then was bent over backwards as his lower body was still stuck. He was covered in the dust from inside the tree. You couldn’t even see his skin color he was so covered. They said he wouldn’t have been able to breathe because of the weight of the fronds. It was horrible. It was the first time I’d heard of someone dying this way.
Yah! I ran over one a few years back thinking it was just a regular flimsy leaf. Felt like a tree was stuck under the car and was grateful I didn’t damage the car. I learned that evening how heavy/ tough those things really are!couldn’t imagine being stuck beneath a skirt of them although I don’t understand how that even happened?!
This whole rescue was live streamed, I saw everything. The whole recovery took around 4 hours. He was long dead by the time he was found by his coworker. The firefighter was kicking the skirt off him at one point. He was very clearly dead, blue skin and rigor mortis had already set it. He was bent in half backwards and crushed under the skirt, his head was not in a position that was compatible with life. I truly hope it was quick and not a horrible end slowly suffocating in a crushed and broken body. What an absolutely horrible way to go. And this is tragically common in this profession.
@@RaptorRockDrakeJesus Machine? There is no machine, he was harnessed to the tree and the skirt fell on top of him bending him in half backwards and crushing him. He had a chainsaw that he was using to trim the tree but that was hanging down on a rope below him.
If you've ever been near an untrimmed palm tree in the wind, you KNOW how dangerous those heavy fronds can be. I couldn't believe how loud the crashing sound was when they hit the ground.
Oh that’s terrible! My heartfelt condolences to this man’s family. I didn’t know this could happen. I’ve heard of tree trimmers falling but not getting stuck. Poor guy. ☹️🙏💔
@@FauxQue-yk8dt The tree trimmer gets stuck under the fronds, they collapse on the guy and are so heavy the person can't get out. That's my understanding, anyway.
That tree hadn't been trimmed for decades and they cut the top of the bundle and it dropped pining him under the massive weight of that bundle and the stem.
@@redrobotmonkeysadly, I have seen reports of similar incidents involving these kinds of palm trees across the state of California. These trimmers are hired to trim the dead palm fronds. The incidents of death or entrapment occurs when the inexperienced trimmer cuts at the fronds while being located underneath. They get into trouble when they underestimate the shear weight and the ability of the dead fronds to collapse on top of them-- essentially crushing them to death.
@@neverenoughdirt but do the leaves just collapse/fold on them so they get pinned against the tree or it slides down the tree from a cut and the trimmer tethered themselves to the tree act as a stopper?
I don’t think I will ever look at this type of palm tree the same way again! I knew that skirt was a habitat for all sorts of birds and creatures but that it could collapse like that and kill someone is horrible. All tree companies should be educated on how to protect their employees from this type of accident so another life is not lost in this manner. 💔
Here’s what i understood from the article : Climber cut all the dead fronds from around the trunk creating a “skirt” which after being detached from the trunk slipped down and entangled/pinned the climber between the frond skirt and the tree. That’s a lot of weight hanging off a person in a climbing harness which eventually suffocated the climber.
It is horrible reporting. Usually they climb up with spikes or for the larger ones use a truck mounted crane. Homie probly didn’t have the correct equipment or slipped somehow, even smaller palm trees are huge when you get up there and they sway in the wind
RIP and condolences to the worker's family. For those who do not have experience with palm trees, the fronds are surprisingly heavy. They look delicate and wispy, but they are amazingly sturdy. Sometimes I have to drag a palm frond from my yard to the street for pick-up, and I am always amazed at how heavy a single frond is. I can't imagine a whole cluster of them.
I’ve trimmed these before and don’t get it… did he cut all the fronds at the same time or something? I usually cut them one by one and toss them down. How does it all fall down at once? Did they break off for some reason unexpectedly?
A little info on the harnesses climbers use: if you are hanging and can't get the pressure off your inner thighs, you've got about 20 minutes before your blood will start clotting in your legs and will probably make it to your heart. They make emergency straps that go on your belt and unroll so you can hook either end together and step in that loop to get pressure off your thighs. Not saying that is what happened.
Do tree trimmers get spotters at all? If not, maybe having a second person ready to aid or get aid would be better. I dont know much of the job industry and how it works, but it always looks like there is one man there and no one else. So tragic. Might not eradicate these incidents from ever happening, but it's always good to have a second or third person. The company probably wouldn't want to anyway because it would mean they have to hire and pay more people.
I’m a 30 year arborist. Been trimming trees rope and saddle like this for most of my career. Basic rule first day on the job is no one climbs alone. Recommended practice is to always have a second set of climbing gear and a qualified rescue climber on every job. Sadly, while this is a great idea on paper, it’s expensive to put into practice, and smaller outfits don’t do it because the need for it is so rare. I’ve never had a guy need rescue on one of my sites. Even larger companies rarely do this. They rely on having a lift on the job and train for aerial rescue that way.
This should never been done alone for a lot of reasons. First for the safety of the climber, second for the safety of people down below to prevent them from getting hit with whatever is cut and falls.
A lot of the fronds have sharp teeth almost like a shark's tooth running the length of the stem. Such a sad loss for his family and friends. God bless!
Kind of like all the suspicious deaths waiting on forensic reports that we never hear any follow up on… or the tens of thousands of immigrant children held at places like Port Hueneme Naval Warfare Base… with no explanation as to what became of them… Media = Medea - “goddess” of illusion
There is no way to know beforehand when you hire a tree trimming company if the certified arborist will be onsite, or if the company sends unskilled labor to do the work with no supervision.
When I lived in Palm Springs (California), I briefly did this 6 days a week for ten hours. Every year at least one person in the area from other landscape companies would die. Mostly falls, but dehydration and heat exhaustion were the causes. I quit when my boss “forbade” me from drinking water. That’s a $#¡++¥ @$$ job!
Palm Springs is a small area. In Phoenix Arizona typically 2 palm trimmers died every year. 1 from suffocation and one from electrocution. I was an arborist there for many years.
I am not understanding how he actually died. What killed him? How did he end up underneath fronds? Why was that fatal instead of just an inconvenience?
I don't understand. He got stuck in or under the palm fronds. Are they heavy? Did he suffocate? I don't understand how he died/what killed him. Poor man, and sincere condolences to his family. May they find peace.
Some of the dead fronds become detached and can fall in bundles, entrapping and suffocating the arborist. Special techniques for avoiding this hazard exist but were not used here.
Thanks for NOT explaining crap. These news stories are so hlaf assed. Lets pretend theres people like me that have never ever been around palm trees. A palm tree kills a worker...mmkay. Just no explanation..are they mean?..got teeth?..ugh
@@JK-lp6uw This was not an accident. It was the predictable result of a tree trimming company sending out workers without proper training and equipment. There are safe ways to trim those trees, and cheap ways to trim them. They went for cheap.
This is so sad. Those prons are extremely heavy. We've seen them kill workers here in AZ too when they fell. I wonder if using a man basket would make a difference rather than climbing the tree?
One trunk is very very heavy if they are huge! The part that attaches to the trunk is Wood!!! So many just don’t get it! They can knock you out for sure!
Oh, geeze; THAT REALLY SUCKS!!! 😢 I didn't realize just how dangerous it could be to trim these trees! Sending my whole hearted condolences to all of his loved ones! May he Rest Easy and In Peace! 😢💔
I have no words, but some of genuine anger for the way many people all over our country having to do these hard jobs with very little money, while some prefer to dance like Ducks on stages all over our states playing the very same Trumpet sounds mocking the immigrants doing these types of work.
I remember in Carlsbad CA decades ago. Two sisters on vacation sat in lounge chairs by the pool. The palm tree appeared normal but had rotted and the entire top of the palm tree fell on one sister and crushed her to death. I never sit under palm trees.
Awe so sad, prayers for his family and friends. While he was working he died how tragic. I feel for the family and hope he did not suffer too much. Peace!
RIP 🙏 From a 2015 article "Palm Tree Worker Suffocated by Palm Fronds - Another Death in California": "Proper work procedures and correct equipment should be used. Fronds should be removed by workers using an aerial device and wearing fall protection. Alternatively, workers should use climbing procedures that place them above the fronds."
I had all my palm trees removed when I first moved in. They are expensive just to prune one and I had six. They are dirty, dangerous, worthless, ugly. They attract rats and they are deadly and very hard to maintain
This is my first time to hear something like this, so tragic🙏I can only imagine what he’d beeb through, Rest in Peace praying for you and your family🙏🙏🙏💐‼️
Well no one will explain it to me, and despite my desperate google searches I still can't make any sense of it. But from watching this video I can only determine that somehow the man got stuck underneath the dead palm fronds, I have no idea how, and then died there, again I have no idea how. I really just can't understand how this happened, first of all how do you get stuck under palm fronds on a vertical tree? Second of all what the hell killed him? AT worst he MAYBE got his gear tangled in the branches, at which point he would just need someone else to come cut him free. But that's obviously not what happened because he died. And it would take A LOT longer than a few hours to die form being trapped like that. So... yeah I have no fucking idea how he actually died. Maybe a bunch of squirrels ran out and mauled him to death?
Getting killed by a live, unmoving tree seems like the universe's way of saying "you're not supposed to be here, and I'm not even gonna try and make this look like a coincidence."
May he rest in peace, and condolences to the family. I hope there will be lessons learned by rope access associations and public works departments all over the world.
I remember going to visit my family in San Diego as a kid and seeing the tree trimmers just climbing barefoot up the palm trees w no gear, it was wild Very dangerous job, awful he lost his life
Not an uncommon situation. The untrained "workers" climb up inside that canopy of dead fronds, and then suffer from CO poisoning because they're running a chainsaw inside what is basically an enclosed tent.
I watched this live yesterday. Those fire fighters worked hard to try and free this poor man. I kinda knew he was deceased from the position of his body in the tree. Very sad story and unfortunate. Condolences to his family..
Where I live the rescue services will not hesitate to call for help with the local arborist community. When you do something every day, for a living, you get to be well prepared for rescue. Rescue of a fellow arborist is the premier event in arborist competitions. Firefighters have a much broader skill set.
I had my palms trimmed a few years back. The trimmer guy had a truck with a bucket that extended up to the fronds. I told him I was thinking about climbing up to trim them myself after getting the crazy price quotes. It was $800 a tree times six of them. After talking to him, he told me that these trees were among the deadliest to trim for this exact reason. Glad I didn't attempt it myself.
Still don’t get why? I know tree trimming in general is very dangerous but why Palm trees in particular?
@@gr8dvdI’m tryna understand that too. I hope we get an explanation. I don’t have the slightest clue about trimming trees so it’d be insightful
@@gr8dvd The "skirt" is interlocked fronds, years and years of them, all around the trunk. It's like a tube that slides down the trunk when it falls.
In a palm tree trimmer accident, the weight of the fallen mass of the frond "skirt" traps the victim between the skirt and the trunk of the tree, compresses the rib cage and the victim can't inhale deeply enough to survive long.
@@gr8dvdIt happens a lot believe it not. Palms are extremely dangerous. Not only can the palm canopy slide down on you, but they usually have bees, bats, wasps, scorpions and snakes living in them. When they have a lot of foliage on them like that anyways 🫣 Sad to hear, my heart goes out to the family 😢
@@weskelly4538 I've been climbing for 20 years now. I've seen a lot. If the tree requires getting off the ground it's not worth it. One of my customers hired me after breaking his back and having to be air lifted, and another one hired me after a broken forearm where the bone was protruding from the skin. 🫣
Im 50 years old, been near lots of palm trees and had no idea the tree could kill you like that. R.I.P. sir.
I have 3 in my yard and didn't know. My laziness in trimming them saved me.
They did not say the tree killed him, they are trying to determine the cause of death. He could have had a heart attack.
@@redrobotmonkeyor drug overdose. Whatever killed him it wasn't the tree
@@redrobotmonkeyprobably took the experimental gene therapy cocktail.
@@FauxQue-yk8dtor maybe since he was trapped under these heavy palm fronds he died due to compression and not being able to expand his rib cage. So maybe he died from the tree .
This is heartbreaking. May he rest in Peace. God bless the rescue team.
God's will be done. ☆
Have no fear. The thoughts and prayers brigade is here! 😇🙏🏻
@@mjblue84 No lol.
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This would b a horrible way to go....
I was born in Ojai. I remember being about 5, this happened at a neighbors house. Sympathies to his loved ones. What a horrible accident.
I’m from Ventura, had no idea something like this could happen. I thought the danger with tree trimming was falling, not getting stuck in the tree 😮
@@PutaPieINmomMAsClownboxa nasty comment.. just like all the others you litter TH-cam with..
Wow. Didn't know those trees could be dangerous. May the trimmer rest peacefully and condolences to loved ones, and co-workers.
Nowhere does it say that anything to do with the tree or trimming it caused his passing, only that he was unconscious up in the tree. He could have had a heart attack up there and become unconscious, that's why we need to wait for the autopsy report
@@moondancer334the news said he got stuck in the tree. I would think it was the tree.
@@moondancer334he was stuck in the tree. What are you talking about ?
@@moondancer334lots tree trimmers have died from weight of fronds
I did not know fronds could weigh down on you like that
Hardworking guy..God rest his soul and give his family and friends peace and strength!❤
@@jaytaylor2090 No lol.
@@tony4534 Eat a whole bag full.
No lol.
Amen 🙏🏻🙏🏻
That’s the third time I’ve seen someone die in a palm tree in about 10 years. What a horrible way to die.
More like once a week
@@MartyWolf-i9l no, I’ve only seen it on the news three times. It might happen once a week but it’s the third time I’ve seen it.
i dont understand getting stuck leads to death??? ate they suffocated?? what is causing the death???
@@lindaparker1043another comment said this tree had a large skirt of dead palm fronds. He was tied to the tree and cut the base of the dead fronds, but this caused them to slide down as one big weight and crush him against the trunk.
@@lindaparker1043 they suffocate or get crushed. The skirt collapses and they become encased in the tree and can’t move. Years ago I was watching them try to rescue someone. They were showing it live. After cutting away for a long time they finally reached the man and he popped out and then was bent over backwards as his lower body was still stuck. He was covered in the dust from inside the tree. You couldn’t even see his skin color he was so covered. They said he wouldn’t have been able to breathe because of the weight of the fronds. It was horrible. It was the first time I’d heard of someone dying this way.
This job is so much more dangerous than most of us realize. Those palm fronds are bigger and heavier than they initially look.
😂, you must be a yuppie.
@@PutaPieINmomMAsClownboxgrow up
Yah! I ran over one a few years back thinking it was just a regular flimsy leaf. Felt like a tree was stuck under the car and was grateful I didn’t damage the car. I learned that evening how heavy/ tough those things really are!couldn’t imagine being stuck beneath a skirt of them although I don’t understand how that even happened?!
No one realizes because no one cares.
@@tony4534most people realize how it happens
This whole rescue was live streamed, I saw everything. The whole recovery took around 4 hours. He was long dead by the time he was found by his coworker. The firefighter was kicking the skirt off him at one point. He was very clearly dead, blue skin and rigor mortis had already set it. He was bent in half backwards and crushed under the skirt, his head was not in a position that was compatible with life. I truly hope it was quick and not a horrible end slowly suffocating in a crushed and broken body. What an absolutely horrible way to go. And this is tragically common in this profession.
So he got wedged between the fronds and the machine he was in your saying? Is very sad if he was operating that thing and accidentally moved to much
@@RaptorRockDrakeJesus Machine? There is no machine, he was harnessed to the tree and the skirt fell on top of him bending him in half backwards and crushing him. He had a chainsaw that he was using to trim the tree but that was hanging down on a rope below him.
Wow. That poor man. As you said, hopefully he did not suffer.
I assumed the same from the live stream. It was a disturbing thing to accidentally come across.
@@zhenren9703I am a bit more than perplexed as to why they would Livestream such a thing
Hard Working Man,💔 May You R.I.P. SIR.
Hardworking? He quit early didn't have a survival instinct in his bones. 😅
No lol.
If you've ever been near an untrimmed palm tree in the wind, you KNOW how dangerous those heavy fronds can be. I couldn't believe how loud the crashing sound was when they hit the ground.
Scared the f out of me. I've seen them dent cars & break windshields here in socal
Oh that’s terrible! My heartfelt condolences to this man’s family. I didn’t know this could happen. I’ve heard of tree trimmers falling but not getting stuck. Poor guy. ☹️🙏💔
It's one of the dangers of trimming palm trees, I've seen it on the news a few times in San Diego.
He was dead. Not stuck. They were stuck trying to get his corpse down
@@FauxQue-yk8dt The tree trimmer gets stuck under the fronds, they collapse on the guy and are so heavy the person can't get out. That's my understanding, anyway.
@@FauxQue-yk8dt ok. Thank you. 🙏
😂
How heartbreaking. Praying for God's peace & comfort for his family.
Amen
Amen
Amen
In Jesus name amen 🙏
That tree hadn't been trimmed for decades and they cut the top of the bundle and it dropped pining him under the massive weight of that bundle and the stem.
That's gotta be definition of Skill Issue / Darwin Award 😂
Thank you. Useless news doesn't explain anything and I was confused.
Inexperienced worker. Some tree companies use boom trucks so they don't get under the fronds.
Thank you for explaining.
Thank you, I didn't understand the news report - the manner of the poor mans death. Crushed and trapped,, and at height. That's horrific.
So sorry for the loss of this poor man and sincere condolences to his family and friends. May he rest in peace.
Terrible! You learn something new everyday, I had no idea that palm fronds could do that.
My deepest condolences and prayers for his family 🙏🙏🙏
So, nothing? Besides your imagined hocus pocus?
this has got to be one of the strangest accidental deaths I've heard of.... RIP !!
It actually happens regularly
@@soilrocktree #Skillissue😂
@@soilrocktree What happened exactly tho? The leaves collapsed on him? I don't understand.
@@redrobotmonkeysadly, I have seen reports of similar incidents involving these kinds of palm trees across the state of California. These trimmers are hired to trim the dead palm fronds. The incidents of death or entrapment occurs when the inexperienced trimmer cuts at the fronds while being located underneath. They get into trouble when they underestimate the shear weight and the ability of the dead fronds to collapse on top of them-- essentially crushing them to death.
@@neverenoughdirt but do the leaves just collapse/fold on them so they get pinned against the tree or it slides down the tree from a cut and the trimmer tethered themselves to the tree act as a stopper?
OMG RIP. Hard working man making a living! Sorry will pray for family and friends.
Hardworking? He quit early. 😅
No lol.
I don’t think I will ever look at this type of palm tree the same way again! I knew that skirt was a habitat for all sorts of birds and creatures but that it could collapse like that and kill someone is horrible. All tree companies should be educated on how to protect their employees from this type of accident so another life is not lost in this manner. 💔
I saw a different video on TH-cam same outcome. It was sad because a family member was looking and you could see the man's face. 🙁
wtf. sounds like a cartoon skit. who cuts from below?
I can’t really understand what happened and the terrible reporting doesn’t help things.
Basically he was crushed by the weight of the palm fronds.
Here’s what i understood from the article :
Climber cut all the dead fronds from around the trunk creating a “skirt” which after being detached from the trunk slipped down and entangled/pinned the climber between the frond skirt and the tree. That’s a lot of weight hanging off a person in a climbing harness which eventually suffocated the climber.
@@PorkChopSammiethank you.
My condolences to his family 😢
🙏🏽 RIP
It is horrible reporting. Usually they climb up with spikes or for the larger ones use a truck mounted crane. Homie probly didn’t have the correct equipment or slipped somehow, even smaller palm trees are huge when you get up there and they sway in the wind
That’s awful. Condolences to his family.
RIP and condolences to the worker's family. For those who do not have experience with palm trees, the fronds are surprisingly heavy. They look delicate and wispy, but they are amazingly sturdy. Sometimes I have to drag a palm frond from my yard to the street for pick-up, and I am always amazed at how heavy a single frond is. I can't imagine a whole cluster of them.
Poor guy! Prayers and much sympathy to the family! 💔
I’ve trimmed these before and don’t get it… did he cut all the fronds at the same time or something? I usually cut them one by one and toss them down. How does it all fall down at once? Did they break off for some reason unexpectedly?
A little info on the harnesses climbers use: if you are hanging and can't get the pressure off your inner thighs, you've got about 20 minutes before your blood will start clotting in your legs and will probably make it to your heart. They make emergency straps that go on your belt and unroll so you can hook either end together and step in that loop to get pressure off your thighs. Not saying that is what happened.
Do tree trimmers get spotters at all? If not, maybe having a second person ready to aid or get aid would be better. I dont know much of the job industry and how it works, but it always looks like there is one man there and no one else. So tragic. Might not eradicate these incidents from ever happening, but it's always good to have a second or third person.
The company probably wouldn't want to anyway because it would mean they have to hire and pay more people.
They actually said in the report that his co-worker did indeed contact emergency services. So yeah, it sounds like he had a spotter.
@@kylieharrison3782no they said he didnt return from work
There was another man with him who called for help as well. From multiple sources I seen
I’m a 30 year arborist. Been trimming trees rope and saddle like this for most of my career. Basic rule first day on the job is no one climbs alone. Recommended practice is to always have a second set of climbing gear and a qualified rescue climber on every job. Sadly, while this is a great idea on paper, it’s expensive to put into practice, and smaller outfits don’t do it because the need for it is so rare. I’ve never had a guy need rescue on one of my sites. Even larger companies rarely do this. They rely on having a lift on the job and train for aerial rescue that way.
This should never been done alone for a lot of reasons. First for the safety of the climber, second for the safety of people down below to prevent them from getting hit with whatever is cut and falls.
A lot of the fronds have sharp teeth almost like a shark's tooth running the length of the stem. Such a sad loss for his family and friends. God bless!
This video did an absolutely god awful job of explaining what happened.
Kind of like all the suspicious deaths waiting on forensic reports that we never hear any follow up on… or the tens of thousands of immigrant children held at places like Port Hueneme Naval Warfare Base… with no explanation as to what became of them…
Media = Medea - “goddess” of illusion
It is dangerous work. Pay your trimmers well and don't try to schiest them
Wow……NEVER have I heard of this way to die. Poor guy
Yep, BIZARRE !
Wait till you hear, radon.
There is no way to know beforehand when you hire a tree trimming company if the certified arborist will be onsite, or if the company sends unskilled labor to do the work with no supervision.
wtf. sounds like a cartoon skit. who cuts from below?
When I lived in Palm Springs (California), I briefly did this 6 days a week for ten hours. Every year at least one person in the area from other landscape companies would die. Mostly falls, but dehydration and heat exhaustion were the causes. I quit when my boss “forbade” me from drinking water. That’s a
$#¡++¥ @$$ job!
Doubtful...
Palm Springs is a small area. In Phoenix Arizona typically 2 palm trimmers died every year. 1 from suffocation and one from electrocution. I was an arborist there for many years.
@@Look_What_You_Didswallowed
May he rest in peace condolences to his family and bless those rescuers that treated him with respect
My deepest and heart felt condolences to this mans family. I pray for God's peace and comfort to envelope this family with his love. God Bless...
So you did nothing and wanted attention in vanity?
I thought he fell! This is horrible! Was he suffocated by the weight? We don’t have palm trees in the Midwest.
This has "I know a guy that can do it cheaper" energy written all over it
R.I.P. and bless the man’s family,friends and the poor coworker ☮️💙🙏🏼
Poor man. I hope he is at rest.
“How was he when you found him?”
“Unfortunately, palms down.”
I’m here all day. 😂
I am not understanding how he actually died. What killed him? How did he end up underneath fronds? Why was that fatal instead of just an inconvenience?
I don't understand. He got stuck in or under the palm fronds. Are they heavy? Did he suffocate? I don't understand how he died/what killed him. Poor man, and sincere condolences to his family. May they find peace.
Some of the dead fronds become detached and can fall in bundles, entrapping and suffocating the arborist. Special techniques for avoiding this hazard exist but were not used here.
Why does "the news" always leave us with more questions than answers?
@@Orpheusftw lol they don’t really know much they just read the notes, it’s not their job to be aware of what’s going on, just read the prompts.
@@Orpheusftw That is so true!!!
They have to do an autopsy to determine the cause of death, that takes time.
This is actually a pretty legitimate hazard with palm tree trimming. This does happen more often than most think.
wtf. sounds like a cartoon skit. who cuts from below?
Omg this is the second one of these I’ve seen in two years. This is so sad.
I know it's so sad,😅. Meanwhile.....
Thanks for NOT explaining crap. These news stories are so hlaf assed. Lets pretend theres people like me that have never ever been around palm trees. A palm tree kills a worker...mmkay. Just no explanation..are they mean?..got teeth?..ugh
I agree. The reporting *sucked* big time.
wtf. sounds like a cartoon skit. who cuts from below?
Really? An autopsy? He died from being stuck in the tree!
So much for a company safety rescue plan or a pre job hazard assessment
wtf. sounds like a cartoon skit. who cuts from below?
Ok. Further explanation needed. How did he diie?
Prayers, rest in peace!
They don't rest. They are just dead and your prayers mean nothing other than your vanity. 😅
This is so sad & should’ve been preventable. 😢
It is. You can either regularly trim off the dead fronds, OR you use a bucket truck so the guy with the chain saw is outside the danger zone.
There is such a thing as "accidents ".
@@JK-lp6uw This was not an accident. It was the predictable result of a tree trimming company sending out workers without proper training and equipment. There are safe ways to trim those trees, and cheap ways to trim them. They went for cheap.
wtf. sounds like a cartoon skit. who cuts from below?
How often should the palm trees be trimmed to keep the fronds from weaving such a heavy skirt?
Once a year
This is so sad. Those prons are extremely heavy. We've seen them kill workers here in AZ too when they fell. I wonder if using a man basket would make a difference rather than climbing the tree?
Man basket with extended reach saw, plus correct trimming technique and this can’t happen. This is the result of trying to do the job cheaply.
Fake.
One trunk is very very heavy if they are huge! The part that attaches to the trunk is Wood!!! So many just don’t get it! They can knock you out for sure!
So how exactly does it kill you? Suffocation?
The weight pretty much pinned him down and he suffocated under them
This other video explains it
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How tragic. My condolences to his family. That poor man. I pray he knew the Lord and that he rests in peace. 🙏🙏🙏
This actually happens from time to time. Others have died like this trimming these Palm Trees in the same manner.
Oh, geeze; THAT REALLY SUCKS!!! 😢 I didn't realize just how dangerous it could be to trim these trees! Sending my whole hearted condolences to all of his loved ones! May he Rest Easy and In Peace! 😢💔
I have no words, but some of genuine anger for the way many people all over our country having to do these hard jobs with very little money, while some prefer to dance like Ducks on stages all over our states playing the very same Trumpet sounds mocking the immigrants doing these types of work.
I've never heard of this before. Condolences to his family and friends.
How tho? He was crushed or asphyxiated?
I can't visualize how this could happen. Did he die of natural causes or was he actually trapped somehow?
I remember in Carlsbad CA decades ago. Two sisters on vacation sat in lounge chairs by the pool. The palm tree appeared normal but had rotted and the entire top of the palm tree fell on one sister and crushed her to death. I never sit under palm trees.
Ban the killer palm trees.
This was so sad, I watched it unfold. Prayers to his family
Awe so sad, prayers for his family and friends. While he was working he died how tragic. I feel for the family and hope he did not suffer too much. Peace!
RIP 🙏
From a 2015 article "Palm Tree Worker Suffocated by Palm Fronds - Another Death in California":
"Proper work procedures and correct equipment should be used. Fronds should be removed by workers using an aerial device and wearing fall protection. Alternatively, workers should use climbing procedures that place them above the fronds."
Ok, yuppie. 😅
2 things you should never do alone: Swimming and tree trimming. 😔
wtf. sounds like a cartoon skit. who cuts from below?
I saw a similar video years ago. Why is this still happening?
This other video explains it
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I had all my palm trees removed when I first moved in. They are expensive just to prune one and I had six. They are dirty, dangerous, worthless, ugly. They attract rats and they are deadly and very hard to maintain
Such a dangerous job.
They go up in flames easy also. People wonder why it cost so much to have trees cut down
I got a lot of respect for tree guys. I’ve hired a lot of them. RIP to this guy and may God keep his family.
This is my first time to hear something like this, so tragic🙏I can only imagine what he’d beeb through, Rest in Peace praying for you and your family🙏🙏🙏💐‼️
RIP. Prayers to the family
this is a problem not found in Canada,
blessings to that hard working mans family,
Praying for his family
I do tree trimming for a living it’s so hard to get customers to understand the high costs. Maybe I’ll share this video.
Poor guy.
RIP. My condolences to his family and friends.
Trimmed one of these trees once in WPB, it was full of red wasps
Absolutely heartbreaking. ❤️🩹 RIP good sir. My condolences to the family
Why can they not start at the top and work down, so they arent underneath the work?
Regulations and tree maintenance need to be put in place
Here’s a guy who’s just trying to put food on the table but will never see his family again. RIP
Oh, no! RIP to him. He will be missed.
No he won't and you won't remember his name. 😅 fake c word.
@@PutaPieINmomMAsClownbox he will! Lol
What was actual cause of death?
Not being professional
Well no one will explain it to me, and despite my desperate google searches I still can't make any sense of it. But from watching this video I can only determine that somehow the man got stuck underneath the dead palm fronds, I have no idea how, and then died there, again I have no idea how. I really just can't understand how this happened, first of all how do you get stuck under palm fronds on a vertical tree? Second of all what the hell killed him? AT worst he MAYBE got his gear tangled in the branches, at which point he would just need someone else to come cut him free. But that's obviously not what happened because he died. And it would take A LOT longer than a few hours to die form being trapped like that. So... yeah I have no fucking idea how he actually died. Maybe a bunch of squirrels ran out and mauled him to death?
Dying at work is one of the worst ways to die
Getting killed by a live, unmoving tree seems like the universe's way of saying "you're not supposed to be here, and I'm not even gonna try and make this look like a coincidence."
Why didn't his groundsman fell the tree before his Climber asphyxiated in his harness? What else was his groundsman there for?
They're just making this stuff up. His name was "Tree Trimmer?"
Juan Tree El Trimmer
May he rest in peace, and condolences to the family. I hope there will be lessons learned by rope access associations and public works departments all over the world.
Strangely enough, this is not the first time this has happened, I remember a similar story a couple years ago, also in So Cal.
I remember going to visit my family in San Diego as a kid and seeing the tree trimmers just climbing barefoot up the palm trees w no gear, it was wild
Very dangerous job, awful he lost his life
No it isn't. People die. So will you.
My condolences to his family
This happened in LA a few years ago! ❤ RIP sir
Fake.
I understand that he got stuck, but I dont understand why or how he died?
Stupidity.
My condolences to his family and friends.
Fake.
Not an uncommon situation. The untrained "workers" climb up inside that canopy of dead fronds, and then suffer from CO poisoning because they're running a chainsaw inside what is basically an enclosed tent.
Ohhhhhh okay, I’m sitting here wondering HOW this happened.
WOW so sad
I watched this live yesterday. Those fire fighters worked hard to try and free this poor man. I kinda knew he was deceased from the position of his body in the tree. Very sad story and unfortunate. Condolences to his family..
Fake.
Where I live the rescue services will not hesitate to call for help with the local arborist community. When you do something every day, for a living, you get to be well prepared for rescue. Rescue of a fellow arborist is the premier event in arborist competitions. Firefighters have a much broader skill set.
A one man point of failure. This is a job for a crew of two.
I hate those trees but I’ve never heard of anyone dying. Another reason for me to hate them.