OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14305585
CLEARANCE,YARDING,LOG,WORK RULES,CRUSHED,STRUCK BY,LOGGING,HIP,UNSTABLE LOAD
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by moving log
Investigation abstract
At approximately 12:15 p.m. on April 12, 1988, Employee #1 was working as a chas ng his hips against the front of the left yarder track and killing him. er for a tracked cypress swing yarder that was operating on a haul road with con tinuos landings. As a turn of two logs was being yarded up a 90 percent slope to the roadside landing, Employee #1 positioned himself by the left front track of the yarder. When the two logs came in view of the yarder engineer, he swung the bottom to the left to land the logs on the 17 ft wide load. The shorter of the two logs, (which was 21 ft long), was fully suspended over the road while the ot her, longer log was still resting on the sloped edge of the road. When the riggi ng was slacked, the upper end of the short log tipped toward Employee #1, crushi
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 14
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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