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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14204291

SAW,TREE,SKIDDER,STRUCK BY,LOGGING

Event
SAW,TREE,SKIDDER,STRUCK BY,LOGGING
Linked inspection
No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number
14204291
Report ID
1054114

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

  1. #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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