OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14498950
BRYAN PULPWOOD, INC.
CALL JUNCTION, TX·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY FALLING LOG
Investigation abstract
On June 28, 1988, Employee #1, a logger working for Bryan Pulpwood, Inc., was tr imming the end of a sawn log in a stack of logs near a boom-type log loader. The operator of the loader swung the boom over Employee #1 with a load of pulpwood logs in the bucket on the end of the boom when the logs fell from the bucket. Em ployee #1 was thrown several feet away from the loader, was struck at the base o f the neck by the end of one of the falling logs, and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 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
- 1
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