OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #712240
CAMPBELL & STURGILL LOGGING INCORPORATED
SUTHERLIN, OR·
Event description
A TREE UPROOTED UNEXPECTEDLY, FELL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE
Investigation abstract
ON DECEMBER 4, 1986, AT APPROXIMATELY 1:40 PM, EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE S LATER. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DE AD ON ARRIVAL. FINISHED FELLING A TREE. THEY PUT AWAY THEIR TOOLS FOR THE DAY AND STARTED WALKI NG DOWN THE HILL. THEY HAD WALKED ABOUT 100 FEET WHEN THEY HEARD A NOISE AND TUR NED AROUND. A TREE HAD UPROOTED, AND WAS FALLING TOWARD THEM. THEY STARTED TO RU N. THE SECOND EMPLOYEE, WHO WAS AHEAD, SAW THE TOP OF THE TREE HIT THE GROUND RI GHT BEHIND HIM. HE STOPPED AND LOOKED BACK. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS LYING ON THE GROUND WITH PART OF THE TREE TOP ON HIM. THE SECOND EMPLOYEE CALLED FOR HELP TO A NEARB Y LOGGING SITE. A HELICOPTER WAS CALLED. THE CUTTERS FROM THE OTHER SITE ARRIVED AND FOUND THAT EMPLOYEE #1 HAD NO PULSE. THE HELICOPTER ARRIVED ABOUT 20 MINUTE
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 48 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 494
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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