Tree trimmer killed after falling from bucket truck

<p>A tree trimmer working for a Georgia company died after he fell from a bucket truck and landed on a forked tree limb.</p><p>Kevin Wilson, 31, was cutting tree limbs with a three-member crew Monday when he fell.</p><p>"He was wearing a safety harness and he was caught in the fork of the tree," said Chief Deputy Dusty Rhodes of the Williamson County Sheriff's Department. "That's what kept him from falling all the way to the ground."</p><p>The crew, which included Wilson's younger brother Tyrone, was employed by a Lawrenceville, Ga.-based contractor, Seelbach and Co. They were trimming trees for Middle Tennessee Electric.</p><p>"I heard somebody holler and the next thing I knew, he was in the tree," Tyrone Wilson said.</p><p>When rescue crews arrived, Wilson's body was roughly 40 feet in the air, officials said. The Franklin Fire Department was called in to lower him from the tree onto a stretcher.</p><p>"The nature of this work is dangerous, but whenever this happens it's just tragic," said Chris Jones, vice president of marketing and communication for Middle Tennessee Electric.</p><p>Wilson had worked as a tree surgeon for about 10 years and lived in Columbia, Tyrone Wilson said.</p>

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