OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14547871

CLEARANCE,HEAD,WORK RULES,CHOKER SETTER,TREE,STRUCK BY,LOGGING,COMMUNICATION,INATTENTION

1987-01-06T00:00:00

Event: CLEARANCE,HEAD,WORK RULES,CHOKER SETTER,TREE,STRUCK BY,LOGGING,COMMUNICATION,INATTENTION
Linked inspection: No inspection record linked to this accident's victims.
Summary number: 14547871
Report ID: 1050210

Event description

Employee killed when struck by falling tree

Investigation abstract

At approximately 8:15 a.m. on January 6, 1987, Employee #1 was helping to set ch okers on three logs so they could be yarded to the landing. There were several s mall saplings located next to the haulback line that had been interfering with s etting the chokers, so the rigging slinger signaled to go ahead on the haulback to clear the line. The turn of logs created a deflection in the haulback line th at broke a 48 ft tall , 10 in. diameter sapling. It fell, striking Employee #1 o n the head and killing him. Employee #1 had been standing 90 ft from the turn of logs and 34 ft from the haulback line.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 21 M

Nature of injury
6

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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