OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14209035

TREE FELLING,STEEP GRADE,TREE,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,LOGGING

1985-06-04T00:00:00

Event: TREE FELLING,STEEP GRADE,TREE,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,LOGGING
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14209035
Report ID: 1054115

Event description

STRUCK BY FALLING UPROOTED TREE

Investigation abstract

EMPLOYEE #1 WAS FELLING A TREE ON A 30 DEGREE SLOPE. A TREE BEHIND HIM UPROOTED, FELL AND STRUCK HIM. HE WAS KILLED.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 41 M

Nature of injury
6

Part of body
13

Event type
1

Source
39

Occupation code
496

Human factor
8

Environmental factor
5

Task assigned
1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.