VIDEO: Crews rescued an injured tree worker who was hit by a limb and was trapped atop a tree nearly 50 feet up in East Bridgewater, Massachusetts, on Wednesday. The incident happened at about 11 a.m. in a wooded area behind a home on Northridge Drive. The tree worker, who was secured in a safety harness, climbed the tree using shoe spikes and was using a chainsaw when a falling piece of the tree kicked back and broke his arm, East Bridgewater officials said. After training for these tech rescues for six years, rescuer Ben Ferreira had his first actual rescue underway shortly after 11 a.m. “(The worker’s) left arm did have an injury to his wrist region. I had to be delicate working around that injury. In the process of doing the rigging, to remove him from the tree,” he said.
