OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14294250
FRACTURE,HEAD,TREE,SKIDDER,STRUCK BY,UNMANNED,LOGGING
Event description
Employee killed when struck by sapling
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was apparently struck in the head by a madrone sapling while attempt ing to chase down a runaway 51(b) Caterpillar skidder. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 41 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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