I'm not sure if it's made the national news - but the community next to mine lost a 6 year old boy early this week when his father, a landscaper/arborist, took the boy and two of his siblings to a job site to help him clear some brush. As the news stories relate, the father turned his back for a moment and the young boy tried to feed a branch into a commercial wood chipper. The boy was sucked into the machine.
I saw the video of the chipper being hauled away on a flat bed trailer. It was HUGE. It reminded me of a chipper another arborist used at our old house when he took down a 100 year old white oak that was overhanging our house. He said it was the type of machine that could pull a telephone pole right in and turn it to chips.
I come close to tears when I think about this but I can't help thinking that those children should not have been anywhere near that machine.