Municipal Forestry Foreman Drowns while on Emergency Duty during an Ice Storm - Massachusetts

doi:10.26616/NIOSHSFACE08MA054

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Municipal Forestry Foreman Drowns while on Emergency Duty during an Ice Storm - Massachusetts

2010/06/11
By Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ...
Series: Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)

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Massachusetts Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Project (Massachusetts FACE) ; Massachusetts. Department of Public Health

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On December 12, 2008 a 50-year-old male municipal forestry foreman (victim) drowned in a stream while on emergency duty during a storm. The victim had been on and off emergency duty throughout the night responding to calls of down trees and tree limbs. At the time of the incident, the victim was in the process of leaving the department of public works parking lot. While backing his work pickup truck, the truck backed over an embankment at the edge of the parking and partially down into a stream. It appears that when the victim exited the pickup truck, he fell into the water that then swept him down stream. The victim was found approximately two miles down stream by a search and rescue team the next day. The Massachusetts FACE Program concluded that to prevent similar occurrences in the future, employers should: 1.) Install barriers along parking lot perimeters that abut embankments; 2.) Conduct hazard assessments of outdoor workspaces to identify hazards and then develop and implement procedures to eliminate these hazards; In addition, municipalities should: 3.) Develop, implement and enforce emergency procedures for tree-related incidents, especially during inclement weather, and provide employees training on these procedures; and 4.) Develop, implement, and enforce comprehensive health and safety programs that include training on hazard recognition and avoidance of unsafe conditions.
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Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
Keywords:

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Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Accidents Forestry Forestry-workers Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 1 Safety-education Safety-measures Safety-practices Safety-programs Training Traumatic-injuries Warning-devices Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices
FACE - NIOSH and State:

All (0000) ; Other (0019) ; Prevention through Design (PtD) (0025)

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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
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State
DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE08MA054
Publisher:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Document Type:

Text
Funding:

Cooperative Agreement
Genre:

Field Study
Place as Subject:

Massachusetts ; OSHA Region 1

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CIO:

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
Topic:

Workplace Safety & Health
Location:

North America
Pages in Document:

1-10
NIOSHTIC Number:

20037821
NTIS Accession Number:

PB2011-102055
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 08MA054, 2010 Jun; :1-10
Federal Fiscal Year:

2010
Performing Organization:

Massachusetts State Department of Public Health
Peer Reviewed:

False
NAICS and SIC Codes:

11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
Start Date:

2005/07/01
End Date:

2026/06/30
Resource Number:

FACE-08MA054
Collection(s):

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
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