Hog Farmer/Logging Company Owner Dies After Being Struck by a Falling Tree - West Virginia: FACE 97-05

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 35-year-old male hog farmer/logging company owner (the victim) had just completed felling a yellow poplar tree at a rural logging site when he was struck and killed by the falling tree. The victim and a co-worker were performing separate logging tasks when the incident occurred. The co-worker was operating a skidder, while the victim was felling trees within the same work area. Using a chainsaw, the victim made an undercut on the one side of a 70-foot-high yellow poplar tree ; he then moved to the opposite side of the tree and made a backcut and the tree began to fall perpendicular to the hillside he was working on. Evidence suggests the victim shut off the saw and set it on the ground, turned his back to the falling tree and began to move away in an uphill direction.
• Subjects:
  • Accident Prevention
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Forestry
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • Logging-workers
  • Industrial-safety
  • Accident-prevention
  • OSHA Region 3
  • Trees
  • Head-injuries
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Logging
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9705
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  West Virginia ; OSHA Region 3
• 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 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Braddee, Richard W. ; Casini, Virgil J. ; Pettit, Theodore A.
• Volume:
  1997
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20000437
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB99-155699
• 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:
  1997
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1997/05/02
• Resource Number:
  FACE 97-05
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167414/cdc_167414_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 2.51 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:6deda7fdb9be802466089c8a78f9d4047524676fc1779f2b3648da653198a28b488ed56c3beb9807a9497f165d1dd67e59dd33c424046777d4dfac8a7c7c2249