OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #761361
FRACTURE,TREE FELLING,SKULL,TREE
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY FALLING TREE
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, a timber cutter for Cameron McPeak Timber Cutting Company was limbi ng previously felled trees. A poplar tree that was 17 inches in diameter was cut by another employee. The tree set down on its stump instead of falling after it had been cut. The other employee warned Employee #1, who was 70 feet downhill l imbing previously felled trees, to be careful of the tree he had just cut. The t ree fell and struck Employee #1. Employee #1 sustained a fractured skull and was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 29 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 1
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