Tree Faller Crushed by Dislodged Tree - Alaska: FACE 92-15

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 47-year-old male tree faller (the victim) was felling trees on a mountainside with a 50 percent slope. The victim was opening a cutting strip approximately 150 feet above a logging road when he felled a hemlock tree that became lodged against another hemlock. The victim decided to clear the lodged tree by cutting and felling the supporting tree. There were no witnesses to the incident, but evidence suggests that when the victim cut the supporting tree, it carried the lodged tree into his intended escape path. Presumably, during his attempt to move away from the falling support tree, the victim tripped in a small hole and fell to the ground. The lodged tree fell on him, striking him on the head and shoulder, fatally crushing him.
• Content Notes:
  Publication Date supplied by FACE program
  
  date does not appear on report.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Crush Injuries
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Forestry
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Logging-workers
  • Training
  • Safety-education
  • Safety-equipment
  • Safety-measures
  • Safety-monitoring
  • Safety-practices
  • Safety-programs
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Logging
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9215
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; OSHA Region 10
• 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:
  6 pdf pages
• Volume:
  1992
• Issue:
  15
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025849
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-102149
• 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:
  1992
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1991/08/23
• Resource Number:
  FACE 92-15
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167292/cdc_167292_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 124.63 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:0f6486e166421e16fdb932207542c8b4b4b6ca9f29d73dc59d15b9e77cbca548a8075de84fe7bda5538b9a25850897e0f011638634d68d59ad60a766cfcd2a20