Feller Struck by Tree Limb 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 December 2, 2014, a 61-year-old Hispanic feller was struck by a tree limb while felling an adjacent tree and died the next day. The feller dropped a pine tree that caught an adjacent poplar limb on the way down. The poplar limb broke off the standing tree, fell butt first, and struck the feller on the head. Two of the three coworkers saw the incident happen. A contracted mechanic working on the skidder called 911. The emergency crews arrived 20 to 30 minutes later and transported the conscious feller to the hospital where he died.
• 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 ; Hispanic ; Logging ; Foreign Born Workers
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE201503
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Interagency Agreement
• 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:
  15 pages
• Contributor:
  Lincoln, Jennifer E.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20051333
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2018-101059
• 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:
  2014/12/02
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c57d6ada97b575478fbb68d0b03e71ffc5683523000f609b91e23857a592ccb1ba4126c7130570153ff81b4c500f085e5e06e4fd22fb7efc76152ee26b58fd29
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167248/cdc_167248_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.29 MB ]