OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14335640
TREE FELLING,LODGED TREE,TREE,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,LOGGING,WATER
Event description
Employee dies after being struck by falling tree
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was felling trees. No one witnessed the accident but it is supposed that Employee #1 felled a tree that had two to three other trees lodged in it. A pparently one of the lodged trees, or the tree that he was felling, struck him a nd knocked him face down into a creek but did not pin him. Employee #1 died of h is injuries three days later in the hospital.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 45 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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