Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
SPEEDING LOG TRUCK OVERTURNS ON CURVE
BACKGROUND: A contracted log truck driver left early one morning from a log deck. Driving conditions were dry and clear. The driver's truck was hauling tree-length pine on a four-bunk trailer. The trailer was loaded with pine pulpwood from a second thinning operation,...
IDENTIFIED BUT IGNORED HAZARD INJURES WOODS WORKER
BACKGROUND: A chain saw operator was felling timber in the South around noon on a clear day in May. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The chain saw operator was 40 years old, was fully trained, and had been with the logging company for one year. He had had no previous...
CHIP DUMPER DAMAGED
BACKGROUND: At a Pacific Northwest mill, a seriously overweight chip truck, with a crowned load, was being elevated on a dumper. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The chip truck driver had eight years of experience hauling chip loads. UNSAFE ACT OR CONDITION: A malfunction of...
CHIP TRUCK TRACTOR ROLLS AWAY FROM CHIP DUMP
BACKGROUND: At a Pacific Northwest mill, a chip truck tractor was about to be detached from its trailer so the trailer could be tipped at the chip dump. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The chip truck driver had 10 years of experience and was considered fully trained, both...
DRIVER FALLS FROM LOG LOAD
BACKGROUND: A Lake States logging company was pre-hauling wood out to an all-weather landing where, in inclement weather, their truckers could haul the wood easily out of the woods and to the mill. It was autumn and the crew was expecting the fall rains to start soon....
LOGGER ELECTROCUTED WHILE TRIMMING LOAD
BACKGROUND: A logger was trimming knots from pine plylogs loaded on a log trailer one autumn afternoon in the South. The trailer was parked underneath a live 115,000-volt electric power line. The power line was 18 feet above the ground. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The...
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