OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14427363
DURANGO SKI CORPORATION
DURANGO, CO·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling tree
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was sitting in the cut surface of a dead tree that was being felled by a coworker. He got up before the coworker made the backcut, but the tree fell in the wrong direction, striking and killing Employee #1.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 38 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 9
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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