OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #511071
NEIL BREWER LOGGING
MCNARY, AZ·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY FALLING TREE
Investigation abstract
AT APPROXIMATELY 2:30 PM ON OCTOBER 16, 1986, EMPLOYEE #1 BEGAN FELLING A TREE W ITHIN ANOTHER EMPLOYEE'S CUTTING AREA. (EMPLOYEE #1 HAD ENTERED THE OTHER EMPLOY EE'S AREA WITHOUT INFORMING HIM THAT HE WAS THERE.) THE OTHER EMPLOYEE COULD NOT SEE EMPLOYEE #1 FROM WHERE HE WAS STANDING. THE OTHER EMPLOYEE CUT A TREE WHICH FELL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE #1, KILLING HIM.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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