OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14512644
OLSEN LOGGING
RADISSON, WI·
Event description
LOGGER KILLED WHEN HE WAS STRUCK BY A FALLING TREE
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 WAS CUTTING TREES WITH A CHAIN SAW. TREE #1, WHICH THE EMPLOYEE HAD JUST CUT, FELL AND UPROOTED ANOTHER TREE 25 FEET AWAY. TREE #2 (THE TREE WHICH H AD JUST BEEN UPROOTED) PROCEEDED TO FALL AND UPROOT TREE #3, WHICH FELL BACKWARD S TOWARD TREE #1. EMPLOYEE # 1 TRIED TO RUN BUT WAS HIT ON THE HEAD BY THE FALLI NG TREE #3. THERE WERE NO WITNESSES THAT SAW THE EMPLOYEE BEING STRUCK BY THE TR EE. ANOTHER EMPLOYEE SAW A TREE FALL, BUT NOT THE ACTUAL ACCIDENT. EMPLOYEE #1 W AS NOT WEARING A HARD HAT AND DIED FROM MASSIVE HEAD INJURIES AND A BROKEN NECK.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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