OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #943712
JACKSON LOGGING
NEWTON GROVE, NC·
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 Male
- Nature of injury
- Concussion (6)
- Part of body
- HEAD (13)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- VEGETATION (39)
- Occupation
- Timber cutting and logging occupations (496)
- Human factor
- OTHER (14)
- 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.