OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14441000
CHEST,FRACTURE,TREE,PELVIS,STRUCK BY,LOGGING
Event description
Employee killed by falling snag
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was cutting firewood for a hunting camp. He had felled a tree and wa s cutting it into blocks that would later be split for firewood when, for some r eason, a snag uphill from where he was working fell and struck him. Employee #1 sustained multiple fractures of his upper chest and pelvis; he was killed instan tly.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 35 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 20
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 2
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