Tree Faller/Bucker Crushed Between Two Logs While Bucking a Fallen Tree - Alaska: FACE 92-10

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 44-year-old male tree faller/bucker (the victim) was felling and bucking (cutting into specified lengths) timber on a mountainside with a 67 percent slope. The victim felled a hemlock tree which came to rest across another hemlock that he had previously felled. Both logs were lying almost parallel with the slope contour. The victim removed the tree limbs from the second hemlock, then measured and marked the log for bucking into sections. After bucking off two sections of the log without incident, he bucked off a third section, which allowed the log's heavier end to pivot down slope. The lighter end of the log swung up slope and fatally crushed the victim against the first hemlock.
• 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:
  • OSHA Region 10
  • Accident-prevention
  • Accidents
  • Injuries
  • Injury-prevention
  • Traumatic-injuries
  • Lumberjacks
  • Lumber-industry
  • Lumber-industry-workers
  • Logging-workers
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Logging
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9210
• 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:
  4 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Higgins, Doloris N.
• Volume:
  1992
• Issue:
  10
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20025673
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-101451
• 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:
  Construction
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1991/10/22
• Resource Number:
  FACE 92-10
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167303/cdc_167303_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 71.90 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2662c66d7e449280b3db399f45e96ae622d27a1f510e0cd3a0aead36a93050be245cb3cc5da21e8d08c75821c785d0fefe8b4981e71d0495c7a78635c73c41bd