OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14490908
STACHURSKI BROTHERS LUMBER CO., INC.
PLAINVILLE, NY·
Event description
Employee killed when crushed by falling log
Investigation abstract
At approximately 10:55 a.m. on October 5, 1987, Employee #1 was unloading logs f rom a stake-rack logging truck. The logs were stacked approximately 18 to 24 in. above the rack of vertical 6 in. diameter pipe stakes. When Employee #1 release d the chain binder from the chain that secured the logs on the truck, a log at t he top rolled over the stake racks. It fell diagonally across Employee #1, pinni ng him to the ground. Employee #1 was taken to the hospital, where he died at 1: 36 p.m.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 57 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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