OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14519763
BEAVER CREEK LOGGING CO.
CLINTON, LA·
Event description
STRUCK BY FALLING PINE TREE
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1, A SAW OPERATOR, WAS CUTTING TREES AT THE PERKINS FARM OFF LOUISIANA EMPLOYEE #1 AGAINST THE SOUTH SIDE OF A NEARBY TREE. HE WAS KILLED. EMPLOYEE #1 HAD WORKED FOR HIS EMPLOYER FOR ABOUT 6 WEEKS. HE WAS AN EXPERIENCED TREE CUTTE R. HIGHWAY 67, NEAR CLINTON, LOUISIANA. THE DATE WAS JULY 10, 1986. AT ABOUT 12:45 PM, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS CUTTING ON AN 18 TO 20 INCH DIAMETER PINE TREE. HE MADE A C UT ABOUT 12 INCHES DEEP ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE TREE AND THEN MADE A 6 INCH UNDE RCUT. HE THEN BEGAN AN OVERCUT ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE TREE ABOUT 2 INCHES ABOVE THE UNDERCUT. THE TREE WAS CUT SO THAT IT WOULD FALL TO THE EAST. HOWEVER, A SU DDEN GUST OF WIND BROKE OFF THE TRUNK AND CAUSED THE PINE TREE TO FALL TO THE RE AR AND LODGE IN THE FORK OF A WHITE OAK. THE WEIGHT OF THE PINE TREE BROKE ONE O F THE OAK FORKS. THE PINE TREE THEN ROLLED AND KICKED BACK, STRIKING AND PINNING
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 44 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 3
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 32
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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