Toolbox Talk Guide: Forestry Worker Killed in Vehicle from Tree Falling Activity

Details

• Corporate Authors:
  Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (Program) (OR-FACE)
• Description:
  Our safety talk today is about a 55-year-old log quality specialist with 30 years experience working in forests who was killed when her vehicle was struck by a tree. Her vehicle was struck when she was driving on a road in an active falling area where a tree faller was working uphill from the road. The area was densely forested and it is not likely the faller or log quality specialist saw each other. A combination of contributing factors included: no advance warning of tree falling activities ahead; inadequate communication among workers from multiple employers in the area (some of whom did not have functional radios); and unsafe cuts that allowed the tree to fall into the road. The log quality specialist died at the scene of traumatic head and neck injury. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Accident Prevention Accidents Automobiles Forestry Hazardous Substances Occupational Health Safety
• Keywords:
  Accident Prevention Forestry Workers Hazard Communication Logging Safety Motor Vehicles
• Series:
  Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation Reports (FACE)
• Subseries:
  Toolbox Talk
• Publisher:
  Oregon Health & Science University
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Guidance
• Place as Subject:
  Oregon ; OSHA Region 10
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20067428
• Citation:
  Portland, OR: Oregon Health & Science University, 2017 May; :1-2
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2017
• Performing Organization:
  Public Health Services, Portland, Oregon
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  Toolbox talk guide: forestry worker killed in vehicle from tree falling activity
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/229176/cdc_229176_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 142.31 KB ]