Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
CABLE HOOK STRIKES DRIVER’S FACE DURING UNBINDING
BACKGROUND: On a fall morning in the South, a log truck driver was pulling the cables off his load at a woodyard unbinding station. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The contract log truck driver was fully trained and…
LOADED, DRIVERLESS TRUCK ROLLS ACROSS WOODYARD
BACKGROUND: The owner-operator of a tractor-trailer log truck in the Northeast was having his truck loaded with 8-foot pulpwood at a concentration log yard. The yard had a very slight surface grade. It was a…
MECHANIC CRUSHES LEG WHILE REPAIRING DELIMBER
BACKGROUND: On a late winter afternoon in the West, a company’s mechanic was repairing a stroke delimber. Weather conditions were good—cool and clear. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The experienced mechanic was in his 40s, and had worked…
LOADER SEAT, OPERATOR TOPPLE FROM SELF-LOADING TRUCK
BACKGROUND: On an overcast, cool winter morning in the Appalachians, a logging contractor was unloading his truck at a woodyard. He was operating the self-unloading knuckleboom on his triaxle truck. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 49-year-old logging…
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…
LOGGER SERIOUSLY INJURED WHILE LIMBING
BACKGROUND: A logger was limbing a large pine with a chain saw on a winter day in northern New England. There was approximately 16 inches of snow on the ground. The logger had planned for…
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