Tree Faller/Bucker Crushed Between Two Logs While Bucking a Fallen Tree - Alaska

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• Corporate Authors:
  Alaska Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (Alaska FACE) ; Alaska. Division of Public Health. Section of Epidemiology. Occupational Injury Prevention 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. NIOSH investigators concluded that in order to prevent future similar occurrences, employers should: 1. ensure that fallers and buckers properly evaluate felled trees to be bucked, and the area around them so that potential hazards can be avoided
  
  2. ensure that fallers and buckers prepare an adequate escape path before attempting to buck any tree
  
  3. ensure that fallers and buckers receive adequate training in safe work procedures
  
  and, 4. conduct inspections to ensure that workers follow company safety procedures.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Forestry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention Logging-workers Lumber-industry Lumber-industry-workers Lumberjacks OSHA Region 10 Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Logging
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE92AK010
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Alaska ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  5 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Bender, Thomas R. ; Helmkamp, James C. ; Klatt, Michael L ; Lincoln, Jennifer M.
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026941
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2005-101451
• Citation:
  Morgantown, WV: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, FACE 92AK010, 1992 Jul ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1992
• Performing Organization:
  Alaska Department of Health and Social Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (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-512:3bf2d501eda65954896fac1374840f13cae8a875b393667cba17de1680c1a98dd5e961fda71c08d001890daa5ddaa1eb045b4fe15801f801125d8dcbf339acd2
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/169081/cdc_169081_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 28.39 KB ]