OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #945022
H.H. LOGGING COMPANY, INC.
WADESBORO, NC·
Event description
EMPLOYEE KILLED WHEN STRUCK BY FALLING TREE
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was bending over, trimming limbs off of a downed tree with a chain s aw. Another employee was behind him preparing to fell a tree close to Employee # 1. The tree veered slightly off course and struck Employee #1, killing him.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 46 Male
- Nature of injury
- Fracture (12)
- Part of body
- BACK (3)
- Accident type
- STRUCK BY (1)
- Source of injury
- VEGETATION (39)
- Occupation
- Timber cutting and logging occupations (496)
- Human factor
- MISJUDGMENT, HAZ. SITUATION (1)
- Environmental factor
- OVERHEAD MOVING/FALLING OBJ AC (6)
- Hazardous substance
- 8880
- 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.