Equipment Operator Struck and Killed by Skidder - South Carolina: FACE 93-16

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program
• Description:
  A 28-year-old male equipment operator died of injuries received when he was struck by a skidder machine he had been operating. The victim was part of a four-man crew involved in cutting trees and moving logs from the cutting area to another site. The employer was a small logging company in operation for 12 years, employing three workers. The victim had worked for 4 months as a skidder operator and had about 8 years of experience in this occupation. The task was to clear cut an area of mixed timber. The victim drove the skidder to a previous cutting site and soon returned pulling a number of logs into the loading area which had a slope of less than 5%. He unhooked the logs and drove away. As he drove the skidder around the loader, he ran over two logs on the ground. Apparently, the victim lost his balance and was thrown out of the skidder. He was struck and run over by the left rear tire. It is recommended that seat belts be provided and used on all mobile equipment, and that a written safety program be developed and enforced.
• Subjects:
  • Accidents, Occupational
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Forestry
  • Motor Vehicle
  • Occupational Health
  • Safety
• Keywords:
  • OSHA Region 4
  • FACE-93-16
  • Logging-workers
  • Accident-analysis
  • Equipment-operators
  • Traumatic-injuries
• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  All ; Construction ; Logging ; Machine (All) ; Machine - Construction ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  NIOSH (In-House)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE9316
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  South 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:
  3 pdf pages
• Volume:
  1993
• Issue:
  16
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00216267
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB94-117892
• 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:
  1993
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS 2022)
• Start Date:
  1993/04/08
• Resource Number:
  FACE 93-16
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/167503/cdc_167503_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 253.65 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Program ; National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:90b9c7a8f84fdd7cfe71f4e41e6ff5048045228b0c79e22fe803783d9ef374222973108401ca1c4a4d7b1644b8b4b24c57f30dc173105088e4c37290894ffd30