OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221686868

S AND K ENT, LLC

HINTON, VA· 2024-01-23T00:00:00

Event: Abrasion, Brain, Chain Saw, Face, Falling Object, Fracture, Head, Hemorrhage, Laceration, Log, Neck, Nose, Shoulder, Skull, Struck By, Unconsciousness, Vertebra
NAICS: 113310
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347235863
Employer profile: S AND K ENT, LLC
Summary number: 221686868
Report ID: 0355116

Event description

Employee is killed when struck by falling log

Investigation abstract

At 3:15 p.m. on January 23, 2024, using radio communications, the foreman and pronounced dead at the scene. Employee #1 worked out a method where the foreman would use the Sennebogen to lift a smaller log, previously cut, over Employee #1 and pull the standing tree trunk just enough to keep the tree from binding Employee #1's chain saw blade. The smaller trunk being used as a lever by the foreman's Sennebogen machine snapped in the machine's claw arm and fell onto the head, neck and shoulders of Employee #1. Employee #1 was immediately rendered unconscious and suffered abrasions to his face, head and neck, fractures of the nasal skeleton, vertebrae and skull, and laceration and hemorrhage of the brain. Employee #1 was

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 19 M

Event type
1

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