The incident took place at about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday and involved an employee from a town contractor, officials said.

A South Florida tree trimmer has died after getting caught in a wood chipper, according to officials . The accident occurred at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday in Ocean Ridge, about 60 miles north of Miami, when a man was trimming trees on the first day of a project at the Ocean Ridge Town Hall and Police Department property.

A man in Florida died after he got caught in a wood chipper while trimming trees at a town hall in the Miami metropolitan area early Tuesday morning.

A man was killed after being pulled into a wood chipper while performing tree-trimming services outside of the Ocean Ridge Town Hall Tuesday morning, officials say.

A tree trimming vendor working at Ocean Ridge Town Hall in Florida died after he was pulled into a wood chipper, local authoritiues announced in a post on Facebook on Tuesday, Jan. 28

An employee of a tree trimming service died Tuesday after he got caught in a wood chipper at the Ocean Ridge Town Hall, officials said.

A Florida tree-trimmer died in a horrifying accident when he was pulled headfirst into a woodchipper and decapitated this week.

OCEAN RIDGE, Fla. (WPEC) — A man was killed after he was caught in a wood chipper in Florida. The deadly accident occurred Tuesday 9:30 a.m. while the man, a contracted tree trimming vendor with Carlton Tree Service, was trimming trees by himself on the first day of a project at the town hall and police department property.