OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14278840
TREE MASTER
NEW MILFORD, CT·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling tree
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, the sole owner of the company, assigned his employees to cut down a n approximately 40 ft high tree. The edge of the street was approximately 40 ft from the base of the tree and he instructed the workers to drop the tree toward the street. Employee #1 then went to the house next door while the employees beg an to fell the tree. When they had completed the cut and the tree started to fal l, the workers looked toward the street and noticed Employee #1 walking by. They yelled to him but he was struck by the falling tree and killed. Employee #1 was at the edge of the lawn and the road at the time of the accident.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 51 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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