OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #816751
FRONT END LOADER,TREE FELLING,TREE LIMB,LOADER BUCKET,WORK RULES,CONSTRUCTION,FALL,STRUCK BY
Event description
Employee killed when struck by tree limb
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was standing in the bucket of a front end loader using a chain saw t o cut trees. A tree limb that he was cutting struck him and caused him to fall o ut of the bucket and hit the ground. Employee #1 was killed.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 42 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 4
- Event type
- 5
- Source
- 27
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 6
- Environmental factor
- 8
- Task assigned
- 1
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