OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #694638
HIGH WIND,TREE FELLING,CONSTRUCTION,TREE,STRUCK BY
Event description
CONSTRUCTION EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN TREE FELL ON HIM
Investigation abstract
EMPLOYEE #1 AND HIS SON WERE WORKING APPROXIMATELY 50 FEET FROM AN OAK TREE WHIC H WAS BEING PREPARED FOR REMOVAL. A THIRD EMPLOYEE WAS USING A CAT BULLDOZER TO LOOSEN THE TREE BY DIGGING AROUND ITS BASE. AS THE BULLDOZER OPERATOR MOVED HIS MACHINE INTO POSITION TO PUSH OVER THE TREE, HE WARNED THE TWO OTHER EMPLOYEES T O "GET CLEAR." A SUDDEN GUST OF WIND BROKE THE TREE LOOSE FROM THE GROUND. IT FE LL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE #1, KILLING HIM. EMPLOYEE #1 DID NOT HAVE SUFFICIENT TIME TO COMPLETELY CLEAR THE AREA BEFORE THE TREE FELL.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 47 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 599
- Human factor
- 20
- Environmental factor
- 17
- Task assigned
- 1
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