OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14203830
FRACTURE,STRUCK BY,LOGGING,LEG
Event description
EMPLOYEES STRUCK BY ROLLING WAD OF ROOTS ON LOGGING SITE
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 9:30 AM ON NOVEMBER 12, 1986, THREE EMPLOYEES WORKING AT A LOGG ING SITE HAD JUST SET A TURN OF LOGS AND HAD CLEARED THE AREA. THEY TOOK SHELTER IN A SMALL CLUSTER OF TREES JUST BELOW A SMALL CREST ON THE HILLSIDE. SUDDENLY, ANOTHER WORKER YELLED "ROOTWAD", TO WARN OF A WAD OF ROOTS ROLLING DOWN THE HIL L. THE THREE EMPLOYEES BEGAN RUNNING, BUT, SINCE THEY DID NOT KNOW WHERE THE ROO TWAD WAS OR IN WHICH DIRECTION IT WAS ROLLING, THEY COULD ONLY GUESS IN WHICH DI RECTION TO RUN. EMPLOYEES #1 AND #2 WERE STRUCK BY THE ROOTWAD. EMPLOYEE #1 SUFF ERED A BROKEN LEG, WHILE EMPLOYEE #2 DIED FROM EXTENSIVE HEAD INJURIES.
Victims (2)
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#1 Hospitalized Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 18
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 40
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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#2 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 40
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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