THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, November 5, 1994 TAG: 9411080508
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: ISLE OF WIGHT LENGTH: Short : 27 lines
A 53-year-old Newport News man was in stable condition Friday evening in Norfolk after a tree limb fell 90 feet, striking his head and causing his chain saw to injure his leg.
John Hubbard, owner of Hubbard Brothers Tree Consultants in Newport News, was taken by helicopter ambulance to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital about 10:30 a.m. Friday, Isle of Wight County sheriff's deputies said.
Hubbard was on the ground, sawing limbs that had been cut from a 100-foot poplar tree in Gatling Point, when the rotted limb fell, said a worker at the site, Ronald Ray of Hampton Roads Crane and Rigging Co., Newport News.
Hubbard suffered a cut to his left leg when the chain saw he was operating struck his leg, police said.
``He had a chain saw in his hand, and the chain saw fell and hit his left leg and cut it pretty bad,'' Ray said. ``It was a freak thing. There's no explanation for it.''
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