The wife of a Lapaz man killed after being pulled through a wood chipper isn't blaming the company, her husband, or her husband’s co-worker.

Meanwhile an investigation into the company's safety procedures is now being launched by the state.

State officials say they have an idea how the accident happened based on another accident with the same company in Indiana 8 years ago.

Trisha Vician puts faith in memories of what she remembers of her husband, 37-year-old James Vician. “Only Jim and the good Lord knows what happened that day,” she says.

Tricia speculates he was pulled in by a branch. His co-worker says he turned his head for a split-second and couldn't find Vician when he looked back.

“He says I turned back around and I hear the sound of that chipper winding up like it had taken a large log through,” Trisha says he told her.

Public records show this is the second time this has happened for the same company.

The same scenario happened back in 2001 when another worker with Tree Core died outside of Lafayette.

“We consider that very very unusual. There are safety standards and safety precautions, training requirements. Some companies even use a second employee monitoring system for the safety bar or large control switch,” explains Jeffry Carter, Deputy Commissioner and Chief for Indiana’s OSHA with the Department of Labor.

Although Tricia Vician isn't pointing any fingers because she says it was an unbelievable accident. “I can't blame no one. It was an accident. It was not someone. They couldn't even foreseen it happening.”

The company is now under investigation by Indiana’s OSHA.

Carter says, “Anytime you've got similar accidents like that we want to know, did you implement the safety procedures? Were there proper procedures being followed? What about the training? Especially, was it implemented and were the safety devices operational?”

Tricia says she just wants her husband to be remembered as a great dad, grandfather and beyond that gruesome day. “Just to me I don't want everybody's last memory being that he did something wrong, or the company did something wrong or even his co-worker,” she says.

All accounts still show that the panic bar was working but the entire machine has not been fully investigated by Indiana’s OSHA.

In the meantime business will continue as usual at Tree Core but a full investigation by the state has been started. A phone call to Tree Core was not returned to Newscenter Sixteen.

The visitation for James Vician is September 12th from 1-3pm at Plymouth Wesleyan Church with a service a short time later. A memorial dinner will be held at the baseball field in Lapaz behind the fire station.

Vician leaves behind two step-children and one grandchild.