OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14305619
CHEST,HEAD,WORK RULES,CAUGHT BY,CHOKER SETTER,CRUSHED,LOGGING,CHOKER,COMMUNICATION
Event description
Choker setter killed when crushed by moving choker cable
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:30 a.m. on October 22, 1988, Employee #1 was working as a ch ked log moved about 5 feet before being stopped by the rigging slinger. The majo r cause of this fatality was an unclear signal. The "one short" signal means to either stop a line or go ahead on a mainline: the engineer interpreted the secon d "one short" as meaning the latter. oker setter for a Madill yarder. He and two coworkers were setting chokers on lo gs in a depressed area not visible to the operator of the yarder, which was loca ted approximately 300 ft up an 80 percent slope. The rigging slinger blew one sh ort whistle to signal the crew to stop rigging. The crew did not hear the whistl e, so the slinger signaled a second time to stop the rigging. When the crew hear d the whistle they started to set chokers instead of stopping the line. Employee #1 had just set his choker when the rigging started to move, catching him in th e bite of the choker. His chest and head were crushed and he was killed. The cho
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 2
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