OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14437628
TUCKER ENGINEERING
HOPE, ID·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling tree
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was shoveling snow that was approximately 6 to 7 ft deep from around ee #1 was found was approximately 66 ft. The tree was approximately 85 ft long. The approximate diameter of the stump was 23 in. The approximate diameter of the section of tree that struck Employee #1 was 10 in. the trunks of trees so his coworker could fell them. The coworker was felling a tree that was leaning in the direction where Employee #1 was working. The cowor ker told Employee #1 to move up the hill and stand next to some gas jugs, on the hill away from the leaning tree. After the coworker felled the tree, he came ou t of his hole and found Employee #1 lying underneath the tree, approximately 38 ft down the hill from the gas jugs. Examination of tracks in the snow indicated that Employee #1 had moved to the gas jugs, then down the hill, 38 feet directly into the path of the falling tree. From the tree stump to the spot where Employ
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 20 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- NECK (20)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- VEGETATION (39)
- Occupation
- Occupation not reported (999)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.