EAST BRIDGEWATER, MASS. (WHDH) - Emergency crews rescued an injured worker from a pine tree about 47 feet off the ground in East Bridgewater Wednesday, officials said.
Shortly before 11 a.m., firefighters responded to the backyard of a home on Northridge Drive to find the worker up the tree, suffering from a broken arm, according to a statement from the East Bridgewater Police and Fire departments.
The worker had climbed up the tree using a safety harness and shoe spikes to cut down part of the tree using a chainsaw, officials said. A chopped-off piece of the tree hit the worker’s arm, causing a fracture and some blood loss.
“He was secured in all his safety equipment and things like that when he was hit, so he stayed in place. He had the ropes and everything else, to hold him in place,” said East Bridgewater Deputy Fire Chief Craig Winsor. “We were confident that he was secure in the tree until the team could assemble and lower him safely.”
The Plymouth County Technical Rescue Team utilized a 35-foot ladder, ropes, pulleys, and harnesses to get to the worker, officials said.
SKY7-HD was over the scene as rescuers strapped him into a harness and lowered him down to the ground.
The worker was airlifted to Tufts Medical Center in Boston for treatment, authorities said.
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