OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14496418
REPAIR,LIVER,LODGED TREE,RUPTURE,BACK,TREE,SKIDDER,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,LOGGING
Event description
Employee killed after being struck by falling tree
Investigation abstract
At approximately 4:45 p.m. on December 14, 1989, Employee #1, a John Deere-I40 s kidder operator, was repairing a broken 5/8 inch wire rope winch line. A previou sly lodged tree, approximately 90 feet in length, fell, striking Employee #1 in the back. Employee #1 died from a ruptured liver due to trauma to the chest. The re were no witnesses to the accident because the sawyers were refueling their ch ain saws approximately 200 feet away.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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