A 19-year-old North Carolina teen was killed after being pulled feet first into a woodchipper.

A 19-year-old North Carolina teen was killed after being pulled feet first into a woodchipper (see news report).  It was his first day on the job. Self-feeding mobile wood chippers commonly used during tree trimming operations consist of a feed mechanism, knives mounted on a rotating chipper disc or drum, and a power plant. Tree branches and trunk sections fed manually into the machine’s infeed hopper are grabbed by the feed mechanism or chipper knives. The chipper disc or drum, rotating between 1,000 and 2,000 rpm, […]