Salem, Conn. – It’s been a few months since we’ve had a wood chipper story here at D’D. Sadly, this new one out of Connecticut may be the first one we have featured that involves a child.
Police say 6-year-old Jeffrey Bourgeois was killed Tuesday morning after he was pulled into his father’s wood chipper.
The boy’s father owns a tree removal service and had brought his three children along with him to a home where he doing some tree work.
While the man’s back was turned, his 6-year-old son tried to help his dad by feeding a branch into the chipper. Unfortunately, his arm got stuck and he was pulled inside the machine.
Officials are investigating, but say it appears to be nothing but a tragic accident. Grief counselors will be available at Jeffrey’s school starting today, although school is out this week.
Students started their Spring Break vacation on Monday.
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Continue ReadingCalifornia Man Decapitated After Being Pulled Into Wood Chipper
January 13, 2012 at 10:23 am by Morbid
NEVADA CITY, Calif. – It’s been awhile since we’ve had an article regarding someone dying via a wood chipper, but that ends today after a man clearing brush in California was killed after being pulled into one.
Reports are that 50-year-old Martin Lara was feeding branches into an industrial-sized wood chipper when he got tangled in a rope used to bundle branches and was pulled into the machine head first. Other workers heard a loud scream from the 50-year-old man but were unable to do anything to help the father of two.
This poor bastard did not suffer the dreaded “total morselization” seen in other incidents where a person is pulled completely through a wood chipper, but was decapitated and found tangled in the wood chipper’s rotors.
They used to be hard to find, but if you do a quick Google search, you can see what happens to the human body when it has been pulled into one of these machines. It’s pretty much what you’d expect.
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Continue ReadingTree Trimmer Dies After His Head Gets Pulled Into Wood Chipper
September 27, 2010 at 8:28 am by Morbid
Tampa, Florida — Every now and then, an accidental death comes along that makes me cringe and sends my brain reeling at the level of horror the victim must have endured, even if it was briefly. The death of 44-year-old Miguel Vargas is one of those such deaths and could have been a scene straight out of one of the FINAL DESTINATION films. Vargas has worked with the Dwayne Wilson Tree Service for the last 7 years, the last four of them he has used the wood chipper. On Saturday afternoon he was part of a five man crew trimming trees feeding the chipper, when he got tangled up in a rope that was around some branches. His boss, Dwayne Wilson, told ABC Action News he heard the sound of something other than wood grounding in the chipper which had him hit the emergency stop button. But it was already too late for Vargas. In a very macabre, very short game of tug-of-war, Vargas struggled to free himself from the rope but was no match against the power of the chipper — he was decapitated within seconds.…
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POQUOSON, Virginia – It’s been awhile, but we have another horrific story of someone being killed inside a wood chipper. Sometime after 3 p.m. Sunday, 14-year-old Frank Anthony Gornick was working for Old Dominion Tree and Lawn Care Service doing some storm cleanup. He was using a shovel to load limbs into a wood chipper when the shovel got caught in the blades and Gornick was pulled inside the wood chipper. Another co-worker ran over to turn off the machine, but it was too late. The report says he died instantly so I guess that is some type of consolation for his friends and family. This ranks up there in my list of most horrific way to die. Even if this kid was an absolute asshole, which by all accounts he was not, he would not have deserved a death like this. A Facebook Page has been set up in his memory and Poquoson high school and middle school are making grief counselors available to all students. …
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