OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #594317
B & M LOGGING
LAUDERDALE, MS·
Event description
Employee killed when struck by falling tree
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was walking away from the work area in which he had been assigned to cut, and through another cutter's area, when a tree fell and struck him. He was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 24 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- BODYSYSTEM (4)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- PERSON (34)
- Occupation
- Timber cutting and logging occupations (496)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
Labels are OSHA's own, from the code dictionary published with the accident-investigation file. The raw code is shown beside each one so this page can be reconciled against OSHA's bulk data. OSHA notes that nature of injury, part of body, source of injury and accident type in this file are not coded to the Occupational Injury and Illness Classification System, and that the occupation titles are not standardised — so these values are not directly comparable with the OIICS-coded severe injury reports.