Tree trimmer dies after falling into wood chipper in California

A tree trimmer fell into a wood chipper and died in Menlo Park, California. Andrea Nakano of CBS News Bay Area has more.

[christinebuckingham]

May he rest in peace - deepest condolences to his loved ones. What a tragic way to pass away. 😢💔🙏🕊💐

[jjrivas]

Horrible way to go, poor guy. May the Lord take him in his arms and protect him.

[TheCommunicationCoach]

Oh my Lord! How horrible. May he RIP and his family be consoled somehow. It's like some b-movie gone real.

[Tonyrg]

They really need to be creative with emergency stops on these things. Maybe have them only operate on a deadman.

[echuparosa]

What a horrible way to go.. But also how do you fall horizontally?

[dawsonfowler]

Those ropes are emergency stops at the top. The only way I see this being an accident is if he reached in head first so he was dead before he could pull the stop ropes

[SFVYachtClub]

Fell in? Does gravity go sideways on that street? That is clearly a wood chipper where branches are thrown in from the side, from a distance. Suspicious.

[lrs]

Hope that the homeowner hired a licensed tree trimmer

[VladimirBlarp]

The amount of splatter shown in the opening of that chipper is insane. That guy had to turn into millions of little chunks of meat.

[wizard]

That chipper is now possessed by the spirit of the worker.
It can never be used again.

[ericinla]

THEY REALLY MEAN - He was pushed into it by someone that didn't like him.

[shanan]

I guarantee he was doing something stupid.

[joe.oneill]

Guess you could say his work came to a grinding halt.

[truthexplorer]

His identity remains completely shredded.