OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #607473
CONSTRUCTION,TREE,STRUCK BY,FALLING OBJECT,LOST CONTROL,AERIAL LIFT
Event description
Employee killed when struck by tree
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was notching a tree that had been delimbed. As the back cut was bein g made on a pine tree that was being felled about 40 ft away, the hinge between the notch and the back cut apparently broke and the tree started to fall toward Employee #1. Another employee, who was in an aerial lift, tried to guide the tre e manually but could not control it. The tree struck Employee #1, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 21 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 18
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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