A Groundsman Working on a Tree Trimming Crew Dies When He is Dragged or Propelled onto a Wood Chipper Feed Table

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• Personal Author:
  Cierpich, Hank ; Harrison, Robert ; Styles, Laura
• Corporate Authors:
  California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE) ; California. Department of Public Health. Occupational Health Branch
• Description:
  A groundsman working on a tree trimming crew died when a climber's rope was pulled into a wood chipper. The rope became tangled in the tree branch the victim was feeding into the wood chipper. As the tree branch entered the chipper, the rope became taut, and the victim was either dragged or knocked onto the feed table, striking his head. The CA/FACE investigator determined that, in order to prevent future incidents, tree service companies should: 1. Ensure that cut tree branches are staged and free of obstacles before being fed into wood chippers
  
  and, 2. Assign another employee as a safety watch whenever cut tree branches are being fed into wood chippers.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Forestry Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Equipment-operators Forestry-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Landscape-services-workers Machine-operators OSHA Region 9 Racial-factors Safety-measures Safety-practices Training Traumatic-injuries Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Hispanic ; Machine - General ; Prevention through Design (PtD) ; Landscaping Services
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE10CA010
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-6
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20040066
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-103645
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 10CA010, 2011 Apr ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2011
• Performing Organization:
  California Department of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2005/07/01
• End Date:
  2026/06/30
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:f67efccce8b0cde27ddfeb7f523bf03aa08415ce33783004ea368c8b9aab25ae091b17b5bc8b60bd79e6c536c5def0e2cde7d026406a6775419262caba4fc589
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/165231/cdc_165231_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 108.85 KB ]