Drop Zone Safety

[BlueRidgeMark]

This topic (minus the fueding going on between some posting members) has made me wonder about one thing.

WHAT ARE THE LIABILITIES INVOLVED WITH SOMEONE WANDERING INTO YOUR DROP ZONE AND GETTING HIT BY FALLING DEBRIS? I ALSO USE ORANGE TRAFFIC CONES AND SIGNS WITH LARGE PRINT THAT SAYS "DANGER TREE WORK"

When Im in the tree or bucket, obviously I can't watch for people wandering into the drop zone 100% of the time, nor can my ground crew who are gathering debris, running a chipper, raking, limbing..etc.

Does anyone know?

Where there are lawyers, there is liability. The best you can do is everything you can, and hope the jury is reasonable.

If I'm on the jury, and you don't have a danger area taped or roped, you are toast. Tape is dirt cheap - there's no reason not to use it along with cones and signs. If your drop zone has a sidewalk or other public thouroughfare going through it, and you don't have live bodies guarding it, you are toast as far as I'm concerned. People are stupid - you have to allow for that. If you count on common sense keeping people safe, you are negligent.