Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
CHAIN SAW LACERATES OPERATOR’S FOOT
BACKGROUND: On a sunny, cool day in the Appalachians, a chain saw operator was topping a large yellow-poplar tree that he had just felled. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 41-year-old chain saw operator’s normal function on the…
UNSAFE TRACTOR-TRAILER CONNECTION
BACKGROUND: On a spring day in the Southeast, a log truck unloaded under an overhead crane at a pulp mill and then traveled empty to a satellite woodyard, where the driver expected his trailer to…
MECHANIC INJURES ARM WHILE WORKING ON SKIDDER BLADE
BACKGROUND: On a late winter morning at a log landing in the Appalachians, a maintenance mechanic and a logging crew member were installing a replacement cutting edge on a skidder blade. Weather conditions were fair…
SELF-LOADER SEAT FAILS, TOPPLING OPERATOR
BACKGROUND: The owner-operator of a self-loading pulpwood truck with an attached pup trailer was loading the truck body with pulpwood. The loader was rear-mounted on the truck frame to allow the operator to load both…
TRUCKS COLLIDE ON ICY ROAD
BACKGROUND: On a clear and sunny March day in the Lake States, two U.S. Forest Service employees were returning to their duty station, driving a pickup truck on a county portion of a forest road.…
DRIVER JERKS STRAP HOOK ON TO FACE
BACKGROUND: On a fall day in the Appalachians, a log truck driver was unbinding his load at a mill’s woodyard. The wood was loaded below the log trailer standards, and the driver released the tension…
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