OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #761361
CAMERON MCPEAK TIMBER CUTTING
DANBURY, NC·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- VEGETATION (39)
- Occupation
- Timber cutting and logging occupations (496)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- 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.