OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14296164

TREE FELLING,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TREE,STRUCK BY,COMMUNICATION

1985-12-04T00:00:00

Event: TREE FELLING,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,TREE,STRUCK BY,COMMUNICATION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14296164
Report ID: 352440

Event description

Employee killed when struck by falling tree

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was working at the top of a grade, cutting up trees that had been pu shed over by a loader. A logger was at the bottom of the grade felling a tree th at was over 100 ft tall. The logger did not know that Employee #1 was in the pat h of the falling tree until it was too late to warn him. Employee #1 was struck by the falling tree and killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 20 M

Nature of injury
6

Part of body
13

Event type
1

Source
43

Occupation code
496

Human factor
4

Environmental factor
6

Task assigned
1

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