OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14539886
SAWYER,TREE FELLING,WORK RULES,LODGED TREE,STRUCK BY,LOGGING,INATTENTION
Event description
Employee struck and killed by falling tree
Investigation abstract
At approximately 2:30 p.m. on July 10, 1986, Employee #1 was removing a snag he had cut that was leaning back into two uncut trees. He felled the first of these trees, but the snag failed to fall. He then cut the second tree, which caused a ll three trees to come down. The two trees Employee #1 cut to remove the snag fe ll forward and away from him. The snag fell backward, striking him on the head, and killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 40 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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