OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14253025
TREE,STRUCK BY
Event description
Employee injured when struck by falling tree
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was felling trees with a chain saw when a tree he had left hung in o ther tree tops either was blown free by the wind or was jarred loose by the move ment of a skid operating in the area the falling tree struck Employee #1 across the chest and left arm. The force of the tree broke several ribs, his left arm, and punctured his lung.
Victim
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#1 Hospitalized Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 889
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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