Logger Dies After Being Struck By Falling Tree

Details

• Personal Author:
  Pue, Howard ; Ray, Thomas D.
• Corporate Authors:
  Missouri Fatality Assessment & Control Evaluation Program (MO FACE) ; Missouri. Department of Health
• Description:
  On April 1, 1998, a 40-year-old male timber cutter (victim) died after being struck by a falling tree. The victim was part of a five-man crew working a selective-cut logging contract. He and another cutter had felled several trees and were waiting for the skidder to pull two logs out of the area. Without warning the logs being skidded out rolled and struck a standing tree, which sheared off at the base and began to fall. The skidder operator yelled a warning and the victim began running away from the skidder. He ran directly into the path of the falling tree and was struck on the head and shoulders. The co-workers came to the aid of the victim but he died within minutes at the scene. The purpose of the FACE Program is to identify risk factors that contribute to worker injury and death, and to make recommendations to employers and individuals on how similar events can be avoided. From the information collected about this incident, the MO FACE investigator concluded that employers should: 1. ensure that employees are trained in hazard awareness and proper escape procedures
  
  2. develop, implement and enforce a written safety program which includes, but is not limited to, worker training in hazard identification and avoidance.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Accidents, Occupational Forestry Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident-analysis Accident-potential Accident-prevention Forestry-workers Injuries Injury-prevention Lumber-industry Lumber-industry-workers Lumberjacks OSHA Region 7 Safety-education Safety-practices 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/NIOSHSFACE98MO023
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Field Study
• Place as Subject:
  Missouri ; OSHA Region 7
• 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:20026261
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2007-110255
• 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 98MO023, 2005 Sep ; :1-6
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Performing Organization:
  Missouri Department of Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  1991/09/30
• End Date:
  2002/03/31
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:3a519664faae7ba1a111115e7f97ba8f75794b1b8f9fedfa32a25e19f742477536ce7bc1fa77b2c5deaaa608d52f62064dd43e27edb2f3407f1064c76d7c79d8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/170266/cdc_170266_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 30.54 KB ]