OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14203533
FRACTURE,HEAD,TREE FELLING,TREE LIMB,LODGED TREE,TREE,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,LOGGING,INATTENTION
Event description
TREE FELLER STRUCK BY FALLING TREE WHICH HAD BEEN LODGED
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1, A LOGGING EMPLOYEE, FELLED A 65 FOOT ALDER TREE WHICH BECAME LODGED IN A NEARBY MAPLE TREE. HE THEN MOVED AROUND TO THE FRONT OF THE LODGED ALDER A ND FELLED A LARGE MAPLE TREE INTO THE ALDER. THE FALLING MAPLE BRUSHED THE ALDER BUT FAILED TO KNOCK IT LOOSE. THE EMPLOYEE, WHO MUST HAVE ASSUMED THAT THE ALDE R WAS SECURELY LODGED, BEGAN BUCKING THE FELLED MAPLE TREE. AT THIS TIME THE BRA NCH THAT WAS HOLDING THE LODGED ALDER TREE UP BROKE. AS THE TREE FELL ONE OF THE UPPER BRANCHES STRUCK EMPLOYEE #1 IN THE HEAD, HE DIED OF A FRACTURED SKULL.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 28 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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