OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #943712
TREE LIMB,TREE STUMPING,TREE,STRUCK BY,CONCUSSION
Event description
EMPLOYEE STRUCK ON HEAD BY FALLING TREE LIMB
Investigation abstract
Employee #1, wearing a hard hat, was standing under a tree taking a break from s tumping when he was struck in the head by a 5.5 in. diameter by 8 ft long tree l imb. The tree limb was green and not rotten or dead. Employee #1 died of a concu ssion.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 37 M
- Nature of injury
- 6
- Part of body
- 13
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 14
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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