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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221409675

U.S. FOREST SERVICE

Event
Blunt force trauma, Head, Struck By, Tree, Tree Care
NAICS
924120
Inspection type
Referral
Activity number
#345628259
Employer profile
U.S. FOREST SERVICE
Summary number
221409675
Report ID
1032700

Event description

Employee is killed when struck by tree

Investigation abstract

At 11:15 a.m. on November 6, 2021, an employee, a volunteer, was planting trees on a slight incline below the trail. A west wind blew over the top portion of a cottonwood tree, and the tree struck the employee in the head. The employee was killed due to blunt force trauma to the head.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 14 M

    Event type
    1

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