Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
LOGGER KILLED WORKING UNDER SETBACK TREE
BACKGROUND: On a breezy and cold early winter weekend day in the Northeast, a conventional logger was felling hardwood trees. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The logger was 38 years old. The extent of his training is unknown.…
TRAILER SETOUT MAN BREAKS HAND ON LANDING GEAR HANDLE
BACKGROUND: On a winter afternoon in the Southeast, a logging crew member was jockeying setout trailers on a harvesting operation. The weather, ground conditions, and topography were all favorable. PERSONAL CHRACTERISTICS: The 35-year-old logging crew…
FELLER-BUNCHER OPERATOR BREAKS POWER LINE
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…
Trucker Falls Off Triaxle Truck Ladder
BACKGROUND: On a sunny, spring afternoon in the Appalachians, a triaxle truck operator was unloading at a woodyard. To shorten his unloading time, the woodyard’s rubber tired unloader, rather than the triaxle’s truck-mounted knuckleboom, was…
Logger Cuts Wrist on Feller-Buncher Sawbar Chain
BACKGROUND: On a fall day in the Appalachians, a logger was performing maintenance on the sawbar of his feller-buncher. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 38-year-old logger had approximately 20 years of logging experience and was considered fully…
Logs Clog Highway
BACKGROUND: On a mild, late fall afternoon in the Southeast, a log truck was merging onto an Interstate highway. Winds were fairly calm, and the road surface was dry. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The past driving experience…
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