Man dies in wood-chipper

Buckdodgers said:
Will the family sue the wood chipper company? They should.
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Granted, the company itself is a seperate entity that could be sued seperately, but the man who died was the owner of the company. Barring any partnerships with several owners, I'd think it would be more monetarily beneficial for the wife of the dead owner to simply sell her inherited portion of the business, along with it's equipment.

And yes, anyone with a (functioning) brain would have turned off the chipper before trying to dislodge the stuck log.

The break bar malfunctioned, but the break bar is there to stop the machine when there is a stuck log, so there would be no big deal if it failed to immediately engage if one were using it properly.

The break bar was not, however, meant as an emergency shut off in the event of someone being pulled into the machine. The man is wholly at fault for his own death, as he is the one who voluntarily stuck his foot into a space he knew, for safety reasons, it should not go. He stuck it into a chipper sized to engulf 15-inch-diameter logs. Yeah, that's roughly the same size as a human torso; and a torso is a lot more squishy than a solid log.
 
wow what a tradegy, I have wood chipper. I bought it and I won't let my neighbor borrow this cuz it is danger.
 
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