OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221374192

C & J TREE SERVICE LLC

PENNSVILLE, NJ· 2021-05-24T00:00:00

Event: Back, Blunt force trauma, Boom Truck, Bucket, Ejected, Fall, Head, Neck, Struck By, Tree Felling, Tree Section
NAICS: 561730
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #345436224
Employer profile: C & J TREE SERVICE LLC
Summary number: 221374192
Report ID: 0213900

Event description

Employee is killed in fall from boom lift

Investigation abstract

At 9:00 p.m. on May 24, 2021, an employee was operating a GMC C7C articulating boom lift at full extension to fell a 100-foot sweetgum tree, using a hand held chain saw. The employee had made several cuts into one side of the trunk of the sweetgum tree when it fell into the bucket, striking the employee and ejecting him from the bucket. The employee died due to blunt force trauma to his head, neck, back and extremities when he hit the ground.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 43 M

Event type
5

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