OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14296164
PLEASENT EXCAVATING COMPANY INCORPORATED
ROCKVILLE, MD·
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
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#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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