Basically, he cut off a branch and got squooshed by the branch and couldn't breath or escape his position on the lift. Rescue didn't get there in time to save him, either.
"A 42-year-old man fatally suffocated while trimming trees Tuesday in Lancaster County, the coroner’s office said.
Danh Tran, of Mount Wolf, died of mechanical asphyxia on the 2000 block of Stone Mill Road in Manor Township, according to the Lancaster County Coroner’s Office.
The coroner’s office said Tran was in an elevated work platform when he was found Tuesday afternoon. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:38 p.m."