OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14204291
SAW,TREE,SKIDDER,STRUCK BY,LOGGING
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN STRUCK-BY A TREE
Investigation abstract
The self-employed logger engaged in salvage work using power saws and a skidder. He was felling a 22-inch-diameter fir tree when a 14-inch-diameter white fir fe ll over and struck him in the back of the neck.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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