OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14293948
LOG,STRUCK BY,LOGGING
Event description
Employee struck and killed by log
Investigation abstract
At approximately 11:30 a.m. on December 18, 1989, Triple-O-Logging was ground sk g over his head. As he swung toward the landing area, he saw Employee #1 getting off the John Deere 850 tractor to unhook the chokers. The swinging was stopped and the log moved to the right and came out from under the heel of the boom. The log rotated in the grapples and struck Employee #1, who was standing near the r ear of the tractor. Apparently, Employee #1 was thrown into the side of the trac tor and sustained severe head injuries. He was transported by ambulance to a loc al hospital and remained in a coma until he died on December 24, 1989. idding second growth timber into a stepped landing. A Koehring 466D hydraulic sh ovel with a Pierce boom and 54 in. grapples were in use. Logs were skidded to th e landing, which was located approximately 12 ft above the road. Employee #1, th e tractor operator, was to unhook the chokers, and the logs would then be set in the road to be limbed and bucked by the chaser. Before this process started, th e shovel operator picked an incense cedar log, approximately 32 ft long by 12 in . in diameter, out of the landing chute, and began to swing to the left. He saw the chaser in the limbing area and swung back to the right to avoid passing a lo
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 54 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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