"Heartbreaking"- Final Selfie This Surgeon Took Before He Was Called By Death
After a Heartbreaking last selfie a tree surgeon took he reported to have been called by death after a distance fall, photos has been released.
A tree surgeon took a selfie after joking ‘it’s going to kill me this job’ just 24 hours before he died after falling 75ft while trimming branches.
Paul Daniels, 36, had been working on a row of conifers with a chainsaw while his safety rope was not properly hooked up.
As he chopped the tip of the tree branches suddenly fell on top of him and dragged him down to the ground.
The father-of-two, from Cheadle, Greater Manchester, landed on his back and died from his injureis. Mr Daniels had privately raised concerns with his family about his business partner Jessica Chandley accepting a £2,500 quote to prune 76 trees in just four days at Hazel Grove Golf Club in Stockport, Greater Manchester.
An expert told an inquest into his death that it would be impossible to complete that amount of work in the time given. During the four day hearing at Stockport, Miss Chandley said that they talked about using a cherry picker to help them but it was deemed unfeasible because of ground levels and the width of the trees at the bottom.
She said: ‘I was working on cutting some smaller branches down when I heard a crash and then I heard Ollie shout “Oh my God, he just came out of the tree.”
‘I didn’t know what to do, I was in such a state of shock. We did all the necessary risk assessments, Paul was very particular about it. Conifers are usually safe.’
Engineer Oliver Bancroft said: ‘Paul thew his tag line down and I caught it and attached the pull line to it then sent it back up to him.
‘He climbed to the highest part of the tree, attached the pull line to the top of the tree and threw it out so that I could catch it. He climbed back into the conifer and I couldn’t see him at all because there was so much foliage.
‘I heard him shout “No Ollie, wait, don’t pull”. I didn’t pull but the rope went slack the tree started to fall. He came out of the tree and the tree fell too, he fell to the bottom and the tree landed on top of him.
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| Final memory of Paul before he fell 75ft from a tree |
Paul Daniels, 36, had been working on a row of conifers with a chainsaw while his safety rope was not properly hooked up.
As he chopped the tip of the tree branches suddenly fell on top of him and dragged him down to the ground.
The father-of-two, from Cheadle, Greater Manchester, landed on his back and died from his injureis. Mr Daniels had privately raised concerns with his family about his business partner Jessica Chandley accepting a £2,500 quote to prune 76 trees in just four days at Hazel Grove Golf Club in Stockport, Greater Manchester.
An expert told an inquest into his death that it would be impossible to complete that amount of work in the time given. During the four day hearing at Stockport, Miss Chandley said that they talked about using a cherry picker to help them but it was deemed unfeasible because of ground levels and the width of the trees at the bottom.
She said: ‘I was working on cutting some smaller branches down when I heard a crash and then I heard Ollie shout “Oh my God, he just came out of the tree.”
‘I didn’t know what to do, I was in such a state of shock. We did all the necessary risk assessments, Paul was very particular about it. Conifers are usually safe.’
Engineer Oliver Bancroft said: ‘Paul thew his tag line down and I caught it and attached the pull line to it then sent it back up to him.
‘He climbed to the highest part of the tree, attached the pull line to the top of the tree and threw it out so that I could catch it. He climbed back into the conifer and I couldn’t see him at all because there was so much foliage.
‘I heard him shout “No Ollie, wait, don’t pull”. I didn’t pull but the rope went slack the tree started to fall. He came out of the tree and the tree fell too, he fell to the bottom and the tree landed on top of him.
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