Boy, 6, Killed After Being Pulled Into Father’s Wood Chipper

What an incredibly sad story.  As a parent, I can’t imagine every recovering from something like that. Wow…loss for words.

This story made me teary.

RIP Angel. I know the whole family is in pain but the father must be going insane. I’d be in the freaking nut house if this were me. 

Fuck

I am from Ct and am so saddened about this story.  The poor parents and the siblings who witnessed this horrific accident may never recover from this.  So sad

This is one of those that makes you cringe and so messed up you just don’t have the words. I’m a go try and get this fucked up shit out of my mind.

Another story to make me hug the crap out of my kids when they get home. When I give them random squeezing hugs, they often respond with, “Great, Mom’s been looking at that sleeping baby demon site again.” The stories with kids the same age as mine hit extra hard, like the one the other day with two out of three sons dying because their fucktard of a father took them sailing in icy water. I can’t (and don’t want to) imagine what any of these families are going through.

I bawled my eyes out reading this story. I can’t imagine what it is like–for the father–for the other children…for the mother. My god. I’m so sorry for them all.

I’m so fucking sad and angry at the universe right now. Goddammit!!!!

Thanks for taking that off of my “movies that I really need to see” list.

It’s possible this wasn’t the first time the boy had helped his dad on a job site. It’s possible that the dad had giving his son the safety lecture not once, but a dozen times. It’s possible that the dad was being careful. It’s possible that accidents happen. I’m inclined to give the father the benefit of the doubt; the loss of a child, under any circumstances, is devastating at best. 

What I don’t understand is why consumer grade and portable woodchippers don’t have the same safeties as full scale industrial models? I worked summers in a sawmill as a teenager, and all of our chippers had detectors in the chutes that would immediately stop the blades if they detected the smallest bit of metal – even the copper rivets in a pair of Levis jeans would set them off. The detectors were set 4.5 feet from the blades so that if a man fell into the chute headfirst, his belt buckle or the fly on his jeans would trip the sensors before his head got to the blades.

That and exactly what Heather just wrote – while I feel for this family, what in the hell was this man thinking allowing children to walk around a dangerous piece of machinery like that? I don’t even pull my van out of its parking space without my 6 year old’s butt parked on the passenger seat. My boy helps me to work on my motorcycles as an errant bolt retriever/wrench passer – and when I do test starts on the bikes, he’s sitting down at least six feet away and to the side and rear of the bike in case the clutch is engaged despite the neutral light being on. I can understand being in a position of having to bring the kids to work, I’ve had to do it more than once – but before that chipper was fired up, those kids should have been sitting in the bed of the truck or on a chunk of tree trunk at least 20 feet away from the mouth of that chipper. Aside from the danger this poor little guy found out about in his last moments, chippers can spit back chunks of wood, and there’s also the hearing damage and fumes from the engine, both of which are extremely harmful to young kids.

One SERIOUS lapse in judgement, and now not only is the guy out a kid, but it’s a safe bet he’s going to need to find himself another job, too. It’s not likely he’s going to be able to do work involving a wood chipper again.

You have to seriously wonder what the fuck he was thinking bringing his kids to a work site where he was going to have what’s essentially a giant open shredder running. Even if for some reason he absolutely HAD to have his kids there, you’d think he’d have the wood chipper turned off when he wasn’t using it and make them stand WAY the hell away from it when he was.

I have to agree with you, that was one of the first things I thought of while reading this story.No way in hell, I would want any children around heavy dangerous machinery.I do feel awful bad for this family and what they are now going through.

I think this page is to send our condolences to the family and keep them in our prayers. No-one should be bashing the father, how do you think he feels. And does anyone really know how it exactly happened. My prayers to the family and R.I.P. little man, your family will never be the same <3

I misread the title and thought it said 6 boys were pulled in to a wood chipper and was like, “How the fuck did that happen?” Doesn’t make it any less tragic, just proves I’m an airhead sometimes. I can’t imagine how horrifying this is for this kid’s family, especially Dad, who’s going to be blaming himself for a long time for bringing his kids to work. So so terrible.

 
Is this dude family with the dude that took his kids on a boat?

KIDS WILL TOP IT, IF YOU CAN THINK IT!! LIVE BY THAT!

THat is so wrong & SO FUNNY.

While I agree that these kids shouldn’t have been around the wood chipper in the first place, there are enough assholes featured on this site that do horrible unthinkable shit ON PURPOSE that are much more deserving of our collective hatred and judgement than this poor father.  I have a 4 year old who would probably try to do the same thing, except that I know his propensity for not listening to me at all and would never allow him to get near a machine like that.  I guess I’m trying to say that this father will suffer his poor judgement for the rest of his life (however long he decides that might be).  We should pray to whatever deity we each believe in that this family can pull through this.  No parent should have to go through what these parents are going through…

I cannot imagine what the family must be going through. What a horrific accident. 

OMG- siiiick!

Kids learn not to do things, by going out and doing them. A wood chipper isn’t one of the things a kid should learn to be around the hard way.

 oh my geez. Thanks for making me snort-giggle.

I took my 10 yo daughter to work with me Monday of this week and last Friday. I work in a nutrition club, and the most dangerous piece of machinery there is a blender.. and we didn’t let her use THAT!

In all seriousness…
I suppose it’s too much to hope that this poor kid’s siblings were looking elsewhere when he got pulled in. As the article is understandably lacking in gory details, I can’t help but wonder how long the machine continued running once his father reacted to the situation – and I’m fervently praying to God (agnostically) that the other kids didn’t see anything recognizable as part of their brother emerge from the other end. They’ll probably be terrified of anything loud and mechanical for a good long time now, on top of everything else.

Just made me cry. So sad, thinking about those horrific last seconds of his young life. And I thought my spring break was rough. My 7 yo broke her leg riding her razor scooter and had to have emergency surgery and is now wheelchair bound for a few months. It could have been so much worse. My heart aches for that family.

I SO feel for these parents – for this little boy’s poor mother. But this accident was 100% preventable. I’m sure the father is hurting more than he ever has or ever will but WHAT exactly was he thinking bringing 3 small children to work with him when he is operating such a dangerous piece of equipment? And WHAT was the mother thinking letting him do it? Sorry to blame the parents but that was some very poor judgement that ended in tragedy. 

No that is not what this page is for. No parent should ever have to go through something like this and I’m sorry for their loss. But no kid should have to go through this either! This little boy lost his life – in a horrific and painful way – because of his parent’s collective BAD judgement. Children do not belong anywhere near machinery like this and it was these parent’s responsibility to protect him and keep him safe. It’s common sense really – children & wood-chippers should NEVER be in the same vicinity as each other. Ever! I get that this was an accident but it was 100% avoidable. These parents are going through hell and this little boy lost his life but it wasn’t because of an unavoidable accident or something beyond control like a medical issue – he died because of his parent’s very bad judgement and I’m not usually, or ever really, for legally punishing parents who lose their child due to an accident or something like that – I think they are grieving enough and being punished enough but with this – I’ve never seen worse judgement – I think both parent’s should be charged with child endangerment and with his death. It does not take a hell of a lot of common sense to know that a child does not belong around a wood-chipper. Sorry if that makes me sound uncaring (I am a mother of 3 myself btw) but  that is the way I feel about this story.

This “poor” father took his children around a WOOD-CHIPPER! How in the world did he think that was even remotely a good idea? And screw the father! What about the little boy? He lost his LIFE because his parents have the worst judgement of any parent I’ve ever seen.

Why didn’t the little boy have at least one parent with good judgement??

Which you would think would  be COMMON SENSE.

Are you serious? Allowing your 6 year old around a woodchipper and “being careful” are as far apart from each other as you can get!! “Being careful” is NOT letting your child around a woodchipper!! This wasn’t an “accident” – this was a terrible tragedy that was 100% preventable and now a little boy has lost his life because he has a couple of dumbasses (as I assume the mother ALLOWED him to take the kids to work with him), with the worst judgement I’ve ever seen, for parents. The loss of a child IS devistating – but the father was 100% responsible for his son’s death & I don’t ever support charging a parent for an accident that cost their child their lives but in this case – I will make an exception. Common sense says children don’t belong around woodchippers!! Child endangerment should be the least the father is charged with. I’m sick of hearing about the “poor father” – what about the POOR LITTLE BOY who depended on his father to protect him and keep him safe and the father failed!

Yes they do. But it is the parents responsibility to use common sense! Why didn’t father let him play with a loaded gun while he was at it?

The “poor parents”???!!! What about the poor little boy who lost his life because his parent’s are fucking idiots with no common sense and worst judgement I’ve ever seen?? This was preventable – children & woodchippers belong no where near each other.

Yes, it was horrible judgement. But I bet anything that the father would change places with his dead son in a second. But don’t worry, he will punish himself more than law enforcement ever can. His sentence is forever.

The gory details get filled in when you see the news video of the chipper and truck being towed away…completely covered up with blue tarps. I knew then that it was far gorier that I could have imagined.

I understand and agree with everyone but one question is stuck in my mind…what if the father had to bring the kids cuz nobody else could watch or take them? The kids were obviously way too close and even being the best parent in the world, it is hard to keep 100% attention and your eyes always on a child. I couldn’t imagine three(I feel 3 is quite similar to 2 but I’m not sure I only have 2) but you would think being around something so dangerous you’d want to tell your kids to keep away and give them something to keep busy with. Mine are 5 n 6 and they do have moments when they don’t listen but if I tell them it’s dangerous and they can get hurt or even die, they listen. I know not all kids can grasp the concept of death but my girls know once you are gone, you are gone. I’m very sad for this boy and his family. I hope his siblings didn’t have to see that shit. His farther with forever live with this and I doubt he’ll be alive for very much longer. I’d off myself if I fucked up that bad. Everyone makes mistakes and learns from them but this is a horrible lesson

The warning on my hair dryer tells me not to use while in the bathtub or shower and the huge tag on my 2″ diameter curling iron cautions me not to use it on my *eyelashes*! I figure that means people have tried these things and been injured.

I agree. Someone brought their four-year-old to the office where I work and I wouldn’t even operate the paper-shredder with him in the room incase he stuck his fingers in the slot (which would be fairly hard to do but you never know).

Damn you for making me snort, swallow air and then burp while trying not to laugh.

Keep this up and I won’t let you sit beside me on the bus.