Hispanic Yard Worker Dies After Being Pinned by a Release of Logs From a Log Stack – North Carolina

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On April 10, 2007, a 20-year-old Hispanic yard worker (the victim) was killed when he was pinned by a release of logs from a log stack. The victim climbed up on the log stack approximately 14 feet in height and was removing a plastic tarp covering when the logs released and rolled out of the stack. The unconscious victim was pinned from the waist down by a stack of logs. A saw operator found the victim lying in the log stack within approximately 15 minutes. The operator ran inside to the production "main" building to get assistance. The victim's father and some other workers ran outside to help. At the log stack a laborer yelled and told a maintenance worker to call 911 and to get a chain saw. The owner and some of the workers attempted to free the victim by cutting some of the logs. During this time, the victim was not breathing and he was unresponsive.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Engineering Forestry Occupational Health Race Factors Safety Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Control-technology Engineering-controls Injuries Injury-prevention Logging-workers Lumber-industry Lumber-industry-workers OSHA Region 4 Racial-factors Surveillance Training Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Construction ; Hispanic - Construction
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200705
• 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:
  7 pages
• Contributor:
  Romano, Nancy T.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20035711
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2010-111758
• 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:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  2007/04/10
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b06a339691e753cc27af35a8c83971b014a11b48ebb7983870475bb3fee1c5ab5aa2caa57291abf87f3487dc9ac579cd26501d3e84b3b803ab6c88af42891bcd
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167265/cdc_167265_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 163.44 KB ]