OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #564112
CHEST,CRUSHED,TREE,LOGGER,STRUCK BY,LOGGING
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY FALLING TREE
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was felling a large pine tree 22 in. in diameter and misjudged the d irection the tree would fall. The tree started to fall toward Employee #1 who ma de an effort to get out of the way. Employee #1 tripped on the underbrush and fe ll on his back. The tree fell, rolled across the upper portion of his body crush ing his chest and killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 32 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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