OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #534875
OBSTRUCTED VIEW,WORK RULES,CRUSHED,SKIDDER,STRUCK BY,LOGGING,RUN OVER,BACKING UP
Event description
Employee killed when run over by log skidder
Investigation abstract
On December 9, 1988, Employee #1 was squatting down, filing a chainsaw that was ng that he had been killed by being run over and crushed by the skidder. Some tr uck drivers who were hauling out logs said that they had asked Employee #1 to mo ve from the turnaround area because he was in the way and could get injured. In addition, the skidder operator's view of the ground is obscured by the dozer bla de and by the large engine compartment. braced against a small log in the log skidder turnaround area. A coworker, a ski dder operator, had just pulled into the log bunching area and released a load of logs when the employer told him to pull his John Deere model 640D skidder aroun d to the truck for refueling. The operator pulled forward to back around the tru ck when he felt his front tire hit something. He thought it was a short log that he had seen earlier in the turnaround area. After backing up a short distance, he could see the chainsaw and then Employee #1, who was lying down with his head between his spread legs. He had tire tread marks on his back and head, indicati
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 61 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 30
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 13
- Task assigned
- 1
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