OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #788133
VIVIAN L BROWN WILBUR L BROWN
MARCOLA, OR·
Event description
Employee killed, one injured in fall from airborne chokers
Investigation abstract
For help in climbing a steep hill, Employees #1 and #2 held onto the chokers of a gravity carriage. The employees were inadvertently lifted into the air by a ra ising skyline and fell off. Employee #1 was killed. Employee #2 was hospitalized .
Victims (2)
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#1 Fatality Age 18 Male
- Nature of injury
- Bruise/Contus/Abras (3)
- Part of body
- CHEST (5)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Timber cutting and logging occupations (496)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Task assigned
- Task regularly assigned (1)
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#2 Hospitalized Age 32 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- FOOT/ANKLE (11)
- Accident type
- FALL(FROM ELEVATION) (5)
- Source of injury
- WORKING SURFACE (42)
- Occupation
- Timber cutting and logging occupations (496)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- 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.