Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
DEAD STUB KILLS LOGGER
BACKGROUND: A logger was working alone on uneven terrain in the Northeast in December. The weather was cold with a stiff breeze out of the north. It was the day before a major holiday. PERSONAL…
DRIVER SLIPS WHILE EXITING CAB
BACKGROUND: On a summer morning in the Appalachians, a chip hauler exited his cab at a mill’s truck scale. The weather was clear and dry. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The truck driver was 35 years old and…
VINE PULLS HAZARD TREE ONTO FELLER
BACKGROUND: On a clear summer day, a logging company employee was felling the few hardwood trees remaining on a steep slope in the Appalachians. (The terrain was judged to be too difficult to harvest the…
SAWHEAD TOOTH STRIKES WORKER IN CHEST
BACKGROUND: A sawhand was limbing and topping trees on a log loading deck one autumn day in the South. Another logging crew member was operating a feller-buncher with a disc sawhead down the hill from…
WORKER STRAYS INTO STRIKE ZONE
BACKGROUND: A chain saw operator was trimming logs at the landing one summer morning in the South. The pine timber stand was on moderately steep, rolling terrain. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 38-year old sawhand was considered…
PULPWOOD TRUCK ROLLS OVER DRIVER
BACKGROUND: A shortwood pulpwood producer stopped to repair the two-speed axle on his truck prior to driving to the woodyard. The producer was salvaging dead pines on an isolated tract on a mild fall day…
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