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 tree trimmer died after getting caught in a wood chipper while trimming trees at a town hall near Miami, officials said.

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