OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14548002
SOUTHEAST TIMBER, INC.
VIEW COVE, AK·
Event description
Employee killed when pinned by rotating loader
Investigation abstract
A loader operator was cleaning brush and small trees from a logging landing area where Employee #1 was a chaser. The landing was too small to safely operate the machinery. The loader operator couldn't swing the machine around between the lo g deck and the Madill yarder, so he had to back out of the landing area to swing the loader. During this operation, Employee #1 became pinned between the loader counterweight and the yarder. He was killed. The boom of the loader made it dif ficult for the operator to see Employee #1. Employee #1 should have been more al ert and not so trusting of the movements of the machine.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 22 M
- Nature of injury
- 18
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 2
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 1
- Task assigned
- 1
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