Feller Struck by Dead Locust Tree While Felling Adjacent Tree—North Carolina

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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:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Forestry Occupational Health Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident Analysis Accident Prevention Injuries Injury Prevention Logging Industry Logging Safety Logging Workers OSHA Region 4 Surveillance Training Traumatic Injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Logging ; Other
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE201504
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study
• 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 pages
• Contributor:
  Lincoln, Jennifer E.
• 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
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2014/08/08
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b371a1ccdb54b84c245f7ac7fc161b635965791d8b594c02faca1889316435cc632ad0d1d15091ff7b45ff59136d6b129cc67c642ad996aef6e13247af208353
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167247/cdc_167247_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 604.77 KB ]