Sawmill Worker Killed by Circular Saw

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• Corporate Authors:
  Kentucky Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program (KY FACE) ; University of Kentucky. College of Public Health. Kentucky Injury Prevention and Research Center
• Description:
  A 32-year-old laborer (the victim) at a sawmill died as a result of injuries received when he lost his balance and fell onto the log carriage directly in front of the 56-inch circular saw. He had been using a cane hook to turn the logs for repeated passes through the saw. After hooking a log, he somehow lost his balance and fell backward onto the carriage
  
  the saw cut him from his shoulders through his midsection. A co-worker (the sawyer) was present, but had been facing another direction and did not see the victim fall. When the sawyer turned around and discovered what had happened, he ran outside, calling for help. The owner's wife called 911 from the nearby office building. Although emergency personnel responded promptly, they found the victim dead at the scene. The deputy coroner was summoned and pronounced the victim dead at 10:05 a.m. The FACE investigator concluded that, to prevent similar occurrences, employers should: 1. install guardrails or barriers between workers and the log carriage, to prevent workers from falling onto the carriage
  
  2. designate a qualified person to conduct regular safety inspections
  
  3. develop, implement and enforce a written safety program which includes worker training in recognizing, avoiding and abating hazards in the workplace.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Injuries Injury-prevention OSHA Region 4 Safety-education Safety-equipment Safety-practices Sawmill-workers Traumatic-injuries

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• FACE - NIOSH and State:
  FACE ; Prevention through Design (PtD)
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  State
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHSFACE96KY122
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Kentucky ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  3 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20026356
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2012-105549
• 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 96KY122, 1997 May ; :1-3
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Performing Organization:
  Kentucky Department of Health Services
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  31-33 - Manufacturing - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1993/09/30
• End Date:
  2006/08/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5c732c73378da37be33bc0b9b37f0980dfd6680cff40d31eb115ca2a8ab93e094ccc58d34d20a831db13a216373091ccdfe503072da7b10155753f1d96723b26
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170202/cdc_170202_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 15.31 KB ]