OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14352637
LEON BAUGH
PEACHTREE, AL·
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK BY FALLING PULPWOOD LOG
Investigation abstract
A KNUCKLEBOOM LOADER WAS BEING USED TO BUNCH LOGS AT A LOG LANDING. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS STANDING IN FRONT OF THE TRUCK ON WHICH THE LOG LOADER WAS MOUNTED. ONE END OF A LIFTED LOG STRUCK THE BUNCHED LOG PILE, AND, SIMULTANEOUSLY, A HYDRAULIC HO SE FAILED, CAUSING THE LIFTED LOG TO BE RELEASED. THE FALLING LOG STRUCK THE GRO UND AND KICKED FORWARD, STRIKING AND KILLING EMPLOYEE #1.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 4
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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