ALBANY — “There was a weird noise coming from the chipper,” said tree climber Brendon John Andres, crying on the witness stand last week at an Occupational Safety and Health Administration hearing in Albany as he recalled the death over a year ago of  a co-worker.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s case against Tony Watson in the death of Justus Booze, 23, in a woodchipper in May continues, since Watson is now contesting the $141,000 fines against him.