FACE IT: Report Slides: Logging Processor Lost Traction and Rolled down Hillside Fatally Injuring Operator – Idaho

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Program
• Description:
  On January 25, 2019, a 32-year-old processor operator was fatally injured when his equipment rolled down a previously logged (clear-cut) hillside. The processor operator was driving the equipment from a spur road to a main logging road. As the processor operator approached a narrow inside corner in the road near a log deck, the tracks on the equipment slipped laterally on the outsloped road. The equipment slid off the road and temporary stopped on logs that had been decked. CONTRIBUTING FACTORS - Occupational injuries and fatalities are often the result of one or more contributing factors or key events in a larger sequence of events that ultimately result in the injury or fatality. NIOSH investigators identified the following unrecognized hazards as key contributing factors in this incident: 1) Road design and maintenance; 2) Road hazard assessment; 3) Operator training; 4) Position of equipment and boom during travel; 5) Operator protection design did not include Falling Object Protection Structure (FOPS), Tip Over Protection Structures (TOPS) and Roll Over Protection Structures (ROPS); and 6) Processing head attachment stowing or stabilization. RECOMMENDATIONS - NIOSH investigators concluded that, to help prevent similar occurrences, employers should: 1) road designers should limit outsloping on forest roads with potential winter travel; and 2) employers should conduct a hazard assessment when working with forestry equipment in areas of steep terrain and provide worker training on hazard recognition as part of a comprehensive and site-specific safety plan. The full version of this report is available here: https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/face/in-house/full202001.html. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Forestry Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Equipment Design Equipment Operators Forestry Workers Hazard Recognition Injuries Injury Prevention Logging Workers Region 10 Rollover Protective Structures ROPS Safety Practices Traumatic Injuries

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• FACE - Firefighter:
  Cause of Death: Medical ; Wildland Fire: Miscellaneous ; Structure Fire ; Structural Fire: Flashover
• Series:
  Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program (FFFIPP)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.26616/NIOSHFACE202001RS
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Field Study ; Case Report
• Place as Subject:
  Idaho ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-13
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20065266
• 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 2020-01, 2022 May; :1-13
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2022
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• NAICS and SIC Codes:
  11 - Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting - (NAICS) ; 113310 - Logging - (NAICS)
• Start Date:
  20190125
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2d457820ba7d133e4d2e539ffd51578e30c71e7f3e76731f5367814da65501f1c73214f84d3180f973f185cf7574bb7a4f38cde10d9ef4b46a563468cebbc707
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/228529/cdc_228529_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 1.39 MB ]