OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #514539
HEART,TREE LIMB,PINNED,RUPTURE,DISLOCATED,RIB,SKIDDER,STRUCK BY,INATTENTION
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK BY TREE LIMB WHILE OPERATING SKIDDER
Investigation abstract
ON SEPTEMBER 21, 1989, EMPLOYEE #1 WAS WORKING WITH A LOGGING CREW APPROXIMATELY 5 MILES OFF OF HIGHWAY 1151. HE WAS OPERATING A JOHN DEERE MODEL 548D SKIDDER, SERIAL #DW548D5516172, AT THE SITE. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS MOVING LOGS WITH THE MACHINE WHEN A 3-INCH DIAMETER OAK TREE BOUGH OR LIMB SUDDENLY WHIPPED INTO THE CAB THR OUGH THE DOOR ON THE LEFT SIDE OF THE CAB. THE TREE BRANCH STRUCK EMPLOYEE #1 WI TH ENOUGH FORCE TO LIFT HIM FROM HIS CHAIR AND PIN HIM AGAINST THE UPPER RIGHT P ORTION OF THE CAB. THE TREE BRANCH STRUCK HIM IN THE RIB CAGE AREA, DISLOCATING THE CAGE AND CAUSING A HEART RUPTURE. APPARENTLY HE DID NOT SEE THE TREE LIMB TH AT CAUSED THE INJURY.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 26 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 8
- Environmental factor
- 4
- Task assigned
- 1
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