OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14496962
LEE WILLIAMS DBA WILLIAMS SAWMILL
WARREN, AR·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling tree
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, who had over 20 years experience in logging operations, cut a live tree, felling it across a creek between two live standing trees. The wind from t he falling live tree or the vibrations from it hitting the ground, caused a dead tree standing approximately 16 to 18 feet from its path to fall. The dead tree fell back across the creek to where Employee #1 was standing, striking him in th e right front side of his head and cheek, and then in his chest. Employee #1, wh o was wearing a hard hat, suffered massive head injuries and died.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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