In early October, the flagger for a Lewis Tree Service mowing crew noticed that a gas line shared the corridor on a utility right-of-way. The general foreman conducted a pre-job walkthrough with the crew. The terrain was uneven, slippery, covered in thick brush and, in it, they found debris from an old railroad. As the general foreman came...
“It was 4:30 in the afternoon on nice, sunny day. Our crew had performed regular trimming on multiple oak trees around a three phase and was stacking brush while getting ready to shut down for the day. One of the crew members went to remove the drop zone cones when all the sudden he heard the sound of a limb slam on the ground. The employee was...
