OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #761387
TREE FELLING,STRUCK BY
Event description
EMPLOYEE WAS STRUCK BY FALLING TREE
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, regularly a motor vehicle operator, was supervising a crew of four prison inmates in clearing a right of way for a road-widening project. Two inmat es were piling brush on the east side of the road, one was operating a chain saw , and the other was using a bush ax. The inmate operating the chain saw was cutt ing a 6-inch diameter tree 30 to 35 feet tall. Employee #1 had finished setting out warning signs in the road and walked across the path of the falling tree whi le trying to position one of the men in a blind curve. The employee was struck o n the head and shoulder by the tree suffering a fractured skull and dying the ne xt day.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 36 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 803
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- Task assigned
- 2
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