When retired inventor and engineer Thomas Fritz decided 2 years ago to remove a dead crab apple tree from his Indiana property, it seemed like a simple enough project. The tree "wasn't tall for a crab apple tree, maybe 10 to 12 feet....I had the chain saw warmed up, [and] thought 'I'll take him out now,'" Fritz remembers. But as he was dragging some of the spiny branches away, the 71-year-old became ensnared and fell, spearing his hand.
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