Father-of-one: Gregery Bulbuc, 31, pictured in a file image, was killed in the tragic accident in Bermondsey, South London

A tree surgeon died today after his chainsaw 'kicked backed' into his neck and he was left dangling on his rope.

Father-of-one Gregery Bulbuc, 31, was killed in the tragic accident in Bermondsey, South London, while trimming a tree in a private back yard.

The Romanian worker who was employed by Aralia Tree Services had a one-year-old son and was a week away from celebrating his 32nd birthday.

His work colleagues slammed a ladder against the tree and raced up it to try to bring him down.

A neighbour called 999 after she saw the man 'slouched and hanging' from the tree.

The woman, who did not wish to be named, said: 'It was before lunchtime.

'My daughter was going out, she saw him and she said: "You need to come out Mum, there's a man in the tree". I looked and he was slumped over and hanging.

'I'd come out about twenty minutes earlier and I had heard the noise of the chainsaw. But you could tell it wasn't cutting anything, it was just on.

'It was either wrapped around him or hanging from the tree or something, but it was just making that noise.

'It wasn't making contact with anything. I couldn't see any blood, I didn't have my glasses on. I just saw him hanging from the tree.

'I thought he had been electrocuted or something, but I thought he was dead.

'I think his head was still attached to his body.'

After dialling 999 she added: 'Whilst I was there and waiting for the ambulance, his friends, or whoever he was working with at the time, put a ladder up against the tree.

'I remember one banging the ladder against the tree.

'Then he went up the ladder and went to get the man to bring him down.

'Another was standing on a roof nearby. The man was taken down to the garden. It was horrible.'

The Romanian worker who was employed by Aralia Tree Services had a one-year-old son

A ladder and police tent in the garden of the London home where the tree surgeon died today

The tree surgeon has been killed on an affluent street after his neck was injured this morning

Police outside a home in Bermondsey today where the worker died in a chainsaw accident

Witnesses reported seeing 'a lot of blood' after the incident which happened at about 11am

Emotional friends and relatives stared at the ladder this afternoon where Mr Bulbuc sustained his fatal injury.

Fighting back tears Mr Bulbuc's brother Ioan Bulbuc, 27, who also works as a tree surgeon, said: 'He was the perfect brother. He was a dad, he has one boy who is one years old. We lived together in the same house in Beckenham.

'We are both Romanian and my brother was here from around 2001 to 2002, a long time. He had been working as a tree surgeon for ten years.

'He was always so happy. He was so happy to have a little boy. Gregery's birthday was next week, he was such a happy person.'

The Romanian worker (pictured) was a week away from celebrating his 32nd birthday

Mr Bulbuc added: 'The police have told me nothing. His boss has told me that he cut something and the chainsaw kicked back.

'It rebounded onto the neck and he didn't fall down at first because of the rope.'

He added: 'I was working on a tree myself. I got a phone call, it was horrible. It is the second most dangerous job in the world. It was just a terrible accident.'

Witnesses reported seeing 'a lot of blood' after the incident on Banyard Road near a school at about 11am today, which was attended by police and paramedics.

Miles Marvin tweeted: 'Second life threatening accident I've seen at Four Squares Bermondsey in a year.

'Poor man come to earn some money and won't even make it home tonight.

'Tree surgeon had a serious accident, not sure of what actually happened but I saw a lot of blood.'

Another witness told the London Evening Standard: 'There was a lot of blood on the roof of the school next door where the tree was hanging over.

'I saw them giving him CPR and blood. It is very serious. I was on the fourth floor of the estate across the road after the emergency services got there and could see into the garden.

'I saw the ladder, the ropes and chain saw, and the man on the floor.'

Charlie Brenland said he saw police cordon off the road, adding: 'Witnesses and the police said there had been an accident with a worker on one of the trees.

Father-of-one Gregery Bulbuc, 31, was killed in the tragic accident in Bermondsey today

The Romanian worker who was employed by Aralia Tree Services had a one-year-old son

'Someone there said one of the tree surgeons had an accident with a chainsaw.'

A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: 'Police were called to Banyard Road in Bermondsey at 11.11am on Wednesday, February 15 to reports of an injured man.

'Officers, the London Ambulance Service and London's Air Ambulance attended. A man, believed to be in his 30s, suffered a neck injury.

'He was pronounced dead at the scene. Next of kin have been informed.

Friends and relatives stared at the ladder where he sustained his fatal injury today

London Ambulance Service sent a Hazardous Area Response Team but could not save him

'This is believed to be a workplace accident and the Health and Safety Executive will be informed in due course.'

London Ambulance Service sent a Hazardous Area Response Team but were sadly unable to save him.

An LAS spokesman said: 'We were called at 11.07am today to reports of an incident at an address on Banyard Road, SE16.

'We sent an ambulance crew, a single responder in a car, a paramedic on a motorcycle, an incident response officer and our Hazardous Area Response Team to the scene.

'We also dispatched London's Air Ambulance. Sadly, despite the extensive efforts of our crews, a patient died at the scene.'

A spokesman for the HSE said it was 'aware and assisting the Metropolitan Police in their investigation and HSE inspectors are attending the site'.

A crowdfunding JustGiving page has been set up to help Mr Bulbuc's girlfriend and son