OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14305056
UNSECURED,LOG,WORK RULES,LOG TRUCK,OFF LOADING,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,LOGGING,TRUCK DRIVER,UNSTABLE LOAD
Event description
Logging truck driver killed by falling logs
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a logging truck driver, was releasing the binders from the logs on he logs had been poorly loaded onto the truck. his truck and pulling off the wrapper. The load had not been restrained by an un loading machine and two logs fell from the truck, striking and killing him. Empl oyee #1 should have waited for the load to be served by a front end loader befor e removing the wrapper. The sorting yard was narrow and the procedure for removi ng wrappers was badly defined and confusing. During the 2 1/2 weeks prior to thi s fatality, several loads had not been restrained by an unloading machine before the wrapper was taken off. No on-site supervisor was present at the sort yard t o ensure that safety procedures were followed during off loading. In addition, t
Victim
-
#1 Fatality Age 57 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.