OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221659717

ENVIRONMENTAL TREE SERVICE, LLC

BEAUMONT, TX· 2024-04-22T00:00:00

Event: Abrasion, Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Catch Point, Caught By, Contusion, Cutting, Entangled, Face, Head, Laceration, Lack of Engineering Controls, Lack of Work Procedures, Machine operator, Misjudgment, Misjudgment of Hazardous Situation, Rope, Rotating Parts, Struck Against, Tree Care, Tree Stumping, Wheel, Wrong Equipment
NAICS: 561730
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347431546
Employer profile: ENVIRONMENTAL TREE SERVICE, LLC
Summary number: 221659717
Report ID: 0626700

Event description

Employee is killed after striking head against tree stumper

Investigation abstract

At 1:30 p.m. on April 22, 2024, an employee was working as a groundskeeper for a tree service. The employee was using a rope to secure and brace a bush to prevent it from coming into contact with the rotating cutting wheel of a Bandit SG-75 Track Stump Grinder. The rope became entangled in rotating wheel and wrapped around the employee's body. The employee was pulled toward the cutting wheel causing him to strike his head on the wheel's debris cover. The employee died from blunt force trauma to his head.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 44 M

Event type
6

Occupation code
486

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