Tree Trimmer Killed When a Branch to Which He Was Tied Broke And His Lifeline Failed

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• Corporate Authors:
  New Jersey Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Project (NJ FACE) ; New Jersey. Department of Health and Senior Services. Occupational Health Service
• Description:
  On September 9, 1996, a 28-year-old tree trimmer died when he fell 60 feet from a tree he was cutting to a gravel driveway below. He was attached by a lanyard to the branch he was trimming and, when the branch broke behind him, he fell with it. His safety line was attached to the tree trunk and, as he and the 25-foot-long branch section fell, his safety line broke and he fell to the ground. New Jersey FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Arborists should use appropriate fall arrest systems when working in trees. 2. Arborists should use appropriate cutting techniques. 3. Employers should provide appropriate training and supervision to employees. 4. Employers and employees should be aware of the dangers of drugs and other substances that may impair judgment or alertness. 5. Arborists should be properly trained in identifying hazardous trees and in safely trimming or removing them.
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Occupational Injuries Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention Occupational-accidents Occupational-hazards OSHA Region 2 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Substance-abuse Training Traumatic-injuries Work-analysis Work-operations Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Falls ; Prevention through Design (PtD) ; Landscaping Services
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE96NJ074
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  New Jersey ; OSHA Region 2
• 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:20026644
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2013-100011
• 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 96NJ074, 1997 Mar ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Performing Organization:
  New Jersey Department of Health
• 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:
  2005/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:b84eb4b0bb9e15064948d0892c647ae1b34d147bced7a0f8a4a9440751d023d0bb40da746c7276fdfb391039ff89160f9ec0972985359fea22f6018d0af40b4a
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170039/cdc_170039_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 24.12 KB ]