BACKGROUND: On a late winter afternoon in the Southeast, a log truck driver was unbinding his load of treelength pine pulpwood at a mill’s unbinding station. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The approximately 70-year-old log truck driver had…
BACKGROUND: On a dry, cool, early spring morning in the Appalachians, a timber cutter was felling marked trees in a hardwood stand. The terrain was hilly but not difficult for manual felling operations. The trees…
BACKGROUND: A bulldozer operator was working alone clearing a logging road on an early spring morning in the Appalachians. The ground was still frozen. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 23-year-old bulldozer operator was co-owner of the construction…
BACKGROUND: On a summer day in the South, a rubber-tired feller-buncher operator was performing a first thinning in a pine plantation. The feller-buncher was working in a new area of the stand, removing the take-down…
BACKGROUND: In late October in the Northeast, a mechanic for a logging and trucking contractor was working on an excavator at the contractor’s shop. The excavator was fitted with a brush grapple, which was used…
BACKGROUND: On a fall day in the South, a landowner was using his pickup truck and a chain to pull residual tops from a harvesting operation up to a rough woods road where he would…
BACKGROUND: On a clear, cool, winter day in the South, a log truck driver was waiting for his truck to be loaded with pine pulpwood. His truck was at the landing on a pine plantation…
BACKGROUND: On a spring afternoon in the Appalachians, an independent mechanic shop owner was adjusting the air brakes on a dump truck owned by a logging contractor. The mechanic asked for help from the owner…
BACKGROUND: On a clear, spring afternoon in the South, a feller-buncher operator was assisting another employee with the in-woods replacement of a windshield on the knuckleboom loader. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 30-year-old operator was fully qualified…
BACKGROUND: On a clear, sunny, winter afternoon at a mill in the South, a log truck driver was removing a load warning flag from the back of his tree-length load of timber. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The…
BACKGROUND: On a clear spring afternoon, with the temperature in the 70’s and a slight wind, a log truck driver was coming around a curve onto a straightaway section of road. He was on a…
BACKGROUND: On a late summer day in the Appalachians, a logging crew member was delimbing and trimming a skidder drag of felled timber. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 65-year-old logging crew member had been logging and operating…
