Tree Trimmer Falls from Tree and Dies in California

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• Corporate Authors:
  California Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (CA/FACE) ; California. Department of Health Services
• Description:
  A 37-year-old Hispanic male tree trimmer (the victim) fell approximately 40 feet from a palm tree and died. The victim had been hired by an apartment complex manager to trim the palm trees around the apartment complex. According to co-workers the victim was using safety devices (lanyard and rope) to secure himself to the palm tree before beginning to trim the branches. Inspection of the body immediately after the fall revealed a broken safety latch and an unsecured secondary safety rope. Paramedics were summoned to the scene by the victim's son who was also working at the incident site. The victim was transported to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. The CA/FACE investigator concluded that, in order to prevent similar future occurrences, employers should: 1. implement a safety and accident prevention plan so that all employees are aware of the hazards involved in their specific jobs. 2. provide first aid and cardiopulmonary (CPR) training for all employees. 3. only allow employees to use approved safety rope so that they are properly secured.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Forestry Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-prevention Forestry-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Logging-workers Occupational-hazards OSHA Region 9 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-monitoring Safety-programs Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-areas Work-operations Work-performance Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Falls ; Hispanic ; Foreign Born Workers ; Landscaping Services
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE93CA007
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  California ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  6 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026991
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2008-100130
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 93CA007, 1994 Feb ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1994
• Performing Organization:
  California Department of Health Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  56 - Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:a9af0f4cae6e89a5032641a9e1413f1e602f66caf0ede53dbfb038e93a8a790534ad099bb61166c2506673e98d2069aa5f762c12b93ff48f47fee0871b175007
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169048/cdc_169048_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 26.69 KB ]