{"id":108717,"date":"2025-01-29T12:03:27","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/tree-trimmer-dead-after-getting-caught-in-wood-chipper-at-florida-town-hall\/"},"modified":"2025-01-29T12:03:27","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T12:03:27","slug":"tree-trimmer-dead-after-getting-caught-in-wood-chipper-at-florida-town-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/tree-trimmer-dead-after-getting-caught-in-wood-chipper-at-florida-town-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree trimmer dead after getting caught in wood chipper at Florida town hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-29\/Untitled%20design%20%285%29.png\" alt><figcaption>Joe Raedle\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(MIAMI) &#8212; A tree trimmer died after getting caught in a wood chipper while trimming trees at a town hall near Miami, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred at approximately 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning when the Ocean Ridge Police Department responded to Ocean Ridge Town Hall &#8212; some 60 miles north of Miami &#8212; for \u201can accident involving one employee from a contracted tree trimming vendor,\u201d according to a statement from the town of Ocean Ridge on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUpon arrival, Ocean Ridge officers found one person had died from injuries sustained in the accident,\u201d officials said. No other individuals on scene sustained injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Officials from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) were immediately notified and were en route to the scene, according to the town of Ocean Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>The identity of the victim has not yet been disclosed by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is currently ongoing at this time and Boynton Beach Fire Rescue is providing grief counseling to town employees and vendor staff, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Raedle\/Getty Images (MIAMI) &#8212; A tree trimmer died after getting caught in a wood chipper while trimming trees at a town hall near Miami, officials said. The incident occurred at approximately 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday morning when the Ocean Ridge Police Department responded to Ocean Ridge Town Hall &#8212;<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/tree-trimmer-dead-after-getting-caught-in-wood-chipper-at-florida-town-hall\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108717"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}