OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14202493
REISCH LOGGING INC
ESTACADA, OR·
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK BY A LOG TO KNEE
Investigation abstract
On August 5, 1987, Employee #1, a logging supervisor, was struck on the side of the knee when a small second growth log swung sideways while still suspended in the grapples of a heal boom type line crane. The blow to the side of his knee ca used a dislocation of his knee cap and tore the ligaments from the inside of his knee.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 9
- Part of body
- 15
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 494
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 10
- Task assigned
- 2
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