Feller Struck by Dead Locust Tree While Felling Adjacent Tree - North Carolina: FACE 2015-04

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• Personal Author:
  Lincoln, Jennifer E.
• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On August 8, 2014, a 31-year-old tree feller died after he was struck by a dead tree. At the time of the incident, two fellers were working on a wood lot in separate cut blocks approximately 600 feet apart. The fatally injured feller had cut a poplar tree and retreated to the chosen escape path. However, before he could escape the area, he was struck by a dead locust tree that had been caught in the poplar branches. Shortly after the incident, the owner arrived on-site and tried to reach the fellers by radio. Only one feller responded. The second feller went to the cut block, found the feller under the tree, and radioed the owner to call 911. Emergency medical services arrived on-site within 20 minutes to find the feller unresponsive.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Forestry
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 4
  • Injuries
  • Traumatic injuries
  • Logging industry
  • Logging workers
  • Logging safety
  • Training
  • Injury prevention
  • Accident prevention
  • Accident analysis
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Logging ; Other
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE201504
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  11 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Lincoln, Jennifer E.
• Volume:
  2015
• Issue:
  4
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051377
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2018-101060
• Citation:
  Morgantown, : U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2018
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  2014/08/08
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2015-04
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167247/cdc_167247_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 604.77 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b371a1ccdb54b84c245f7ac7fc161b635965791d8b594c02faca1889316435cc632ad0d1d15091ff7b45ff59136d6b129cc67c642ad996aef6e13247af208353