Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
105,991Records 71,450Employers 85,836Hospitalizations 27,959Amputations 2015-01-01 2025-11-30

OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221441082

DUSTCOM LIMITED, INC.

Event
Broke, Chain Saw, Cutting, Falling Object, Head, Struck By, Tree, Tree Felling
NAICS
238910
Inspection type
Federal Agency
Activity number
#345805329
Employer profile
DUSTCOM LIMITED, INC.
Summary number
221441082
Report ID
0418400

Event description

Employee is struck on head by falling tree and is killed

Investigation abstract

At 7:30 a.m. on February 28, 2022, an employee made cuts at the bottom of a tree with a chain saw. The employee then began to push the tree over when the top of the tree broke free and struck the employee's head. The employee was killed by unspecified head injuries.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 55 M

    Event type
    1

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.