OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14293518
COAST CUTTERS INC
UMPQUA, OR·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling limb and lodged tree
Investigation abstract
At approximately 7:30 a.m. on August 11, 1987, Employee #1's saw became caught i #1 was pronounced dead at the scene. n a 2-ft-9-in.-diameter Douglas fir. He went down the hill and attempted to push over the tree by felling a 5-ft-diameter fir, but that lodged in the first tree instead of knocking it over. Employee #1 then went back uphill under the second tree and bore into the first tree in an attempt to fell it. Apparently, the tre es started to fall. Employee #1 was leaving the stump when he was struck by a la rge limb. He rolled approximately 50 ft downhill and came to rest approximately 13 ft from the second tree. The second tree came off its stump and pinned Employ ee #1 underneath. His supervisor called for emergency medical help, but Employee
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 61 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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