Tree Trimmer Dies After Falling with a Fractured Tree

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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 February 14, 1995, a 33-year-old male tree climber/crew chief of a small tree trimming company was killed after he fell approximately 42 feet with a falling tree. The victim was working with two other employees to cut and trim a group of three vertical tree limbs (branching out from the main trunk) that had been tied together with steel cable. The victim was tied to the limb and, when he cut the cable, the limb fractured. He fell with the tree and was crushed. NJDOH FACE investigators concluded that, in order to prevent similar incidents in the future, the following safety guidelines should be followed: 1. Tree trimmers should be aware of alternate methods of safely removing hazardous trees
  
  2. Tree trimmers should be properly trained in identifying hazardous trees and in safely trimming or removing them
  
  3. Tree trimmers should utilize fall protection when climbing in trees.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Forestry Occupational Health Personal Protective Equipment Safety Safety Management Staff Development
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Forestry-workers Hazards Injuries Injury-prevention Logging-workers OSHA Region 2 Personal-protection Personal-protective-equipment Protective-equipment Safety-equipment Safety-measures Safety-practices Training Traumatic-injuries Work-practices

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Prevention through Design (PtD) ; Landscaping Services
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE95NJ016
• 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:
  5 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026602
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2014-105056
• 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 95NJ016, 1995 Jul ; :1-5
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1995
• 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-512:6bd8fb1d899ff70c339425a31109dc47e0bc80a6c359a7d08826ce94d92ef2c02d1530dbc21ff33e4849e09154456cf8cd0d1314e4595451e5bfa0e639f23198
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170066/cdc_170066_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 24.81 KB ]