Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
Fatality From Rotating Disc On Excavator
BACKGROUND: On a winter day in the Pacific Northwest an equipment operator trimming brush alongside a logging road died after he was apparently pulled into a rotating disc used to cut brush. He was using an excavator with a disc cutting attachment…
Sawhead Projects Wood Splinter into Vehicle Tire
BACKGROUND: On a clear summer morning in the Appalachians, a logging crew was harvesting hardwood timber in rolling terrain. The logging crew had parked a service truck on the edge of the log deck as usual when they arrived in the morning….
Winch/Tiedown Bar Strikes Driver’s Face
BACKGROUND: On a dry summer morning in the Appalachians, a log trucker was binding down a load of pine pulpwood at the landing. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 57-year-old driver was a contract trucker with 30 years of bus driving and contract log…
Center Mount Boom Left Up Makes Contact with Powerline
BACKGROUND: On a winter afternoon day in the Lake States, a logging business owner was training a new employee. The business owner and employee scaled-in and were directed by the scaler to unload the wood at a specified landing where the truck was…
Chip Hauler Falls Asleep at the Wheel
Background: On an early morning winter day in the Lake States Region, a driver was hauling sawmill chips to a paper mill. The driver was on his last trip after a long night shift. He was 15 miles from his delivery destination when the incident…
Skidder Operator Cuts Leg When Topping Tree
BACKGROUND:In the southeastern U.S., a logging crew was select cutting grade logs. Most trees were felled with a three-wheeled feller-buncher, but over-sized trees and timber in the SMZ’s were manually felled. One employee—the skidder…
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