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19.09.2006

Lack of Harness takes another life

A 50 year-old man trimming trees in a residential area in Westside Florida, was thrown from the basket of the aerial lift he was using after a tree he was cutting, struck the lift.
The tree caused the machine to tilt over to the point that it catapulted him out of the basket to his death,
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The man was ejected from this platform to his death


The platform came to rest without tipping over, a harness would almost certainly have saved his life.



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