OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #910513
TREE FELLING,TREE LIMB,STRUCK BY
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN TREE LIMB FALLS ON HIM
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, who worked for Joe Jones Logging, was cutting a 60 foot tree that h ad about a 24 in. diameter. As the tree fell, it hit a limb on a nearby tree tha t caused the limb to snap back and break off. It fell on Employee #1 and killed him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 34 M
- Nature of injury
- 12
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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