The court heard from two men who had been working with the 54-year-old when the accident occurred.
The jury of 10 men and women concluded that the ash tree being worked on by Trevor Kenneth Jones, an arable operator known as Ken, had probably"fishtailed" - or side swiped him - when he was chopping down trees at Serpent Farm off Lower Barnes Road in Ludlow on Tuesday, February 8, 2022.
Senior coroner John Ellery was told that 54-year-old Mr Jones had cut down about 100 trees during his time of three weeks of working on the site. And on the day in question he was already dealing with his third tree. He said the"only explanation" for why the 420mm-diameter mid sized tree ended up hitting Mr Jones was that it side swiped him under a rebound known as"fish tailing".Under cross examination from solicitor Richard Ottley, representing DT Gittins, Mr Baveresco said the tree was under 380mm slightly above where Mr Jones had cut the tree but wider where he had cut it. He did not have the certificate to carry out that kind of work.
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