Chain Saw Operator Dies After Being Struck by Excavator Bucket During Site Clearing - North Carolina: FACE 2004-07

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• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  On July 27, 2004, a 46-year-old chain saw operator (victim) was cutting root balls from trees pushed over during site clearing, when he sustained fatal crushing injuries after being struck by the bucket of a track-mounted hydraulic excavator. The excavator operator was using the bucket on the excavator to push over trees, straighten downed trees for stumping, and move damaged trees to a large burn pile. When he realized he had not seen the victim for approximately 15 minutes, he moved the excavator to get a better view of the area and saw the victim on the ground. He jumped out of the excavator and ran to the victim. Unable to get a response when he called to the victim, he ran to his employer who called 911 on his cell phone. The employer drove to the main road to help emergency medical service personnel (EMS) locate the incident site. Police officers responded within minutes and the excavator operator accompanied them to the incident site. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:30 a.m. by EMS personnel.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Construction Industry
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Forestry
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 4
  • Accident-analysis
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Construction-industry
  • Construction-equipment
  • Construction-workers
  More +
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Construction
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE200407
• 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:
  9 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  deGuzman, Gerard ; Higgins, Doloris N.
• Volume:
  2004
• Issue:
  7
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025808
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-102141
• 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:
  2005
• NORA Priority Area:
  Construction
• Performing Organization:
  West Virginia University, School of Medicine, Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health, Morgantown, West Virginia
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  23 - Construction - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1997/07/01
• End Date:
  2005/06/30
• Resource Number:
  FACE 2004-07
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167299/cdc_167299_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 433.82 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:9927a17833e2ad1c3c1afc0f22a666ee5e87d57a9d153495455e3656f1b0661c35b2aa2e4b52ddbe8ab152d65e5308dbcfb0a1eac9defc8dbbab374a1b2efbde