Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
DRIVER FALLS OFF TRAILER WHILE CLEANING BARK
BACKGROUND: On a fall day in the Appalachians, a truck driver was clearing the loose bark and wood debris off his log trailer at a mill woodyard before pulling out to the public highway. Conditions…
LOG TRAILER TIPS OVER ON TO FIREWOOD CUTTER
BACKGROUND: On a fall weekend day in the Appalachians, an individual was cutting firewood from unmerchantable tops and log pieces at a log deck. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The firewood cutter had previous timber cutting experience. He…
DRIVER SUFFOCATES CLEARING CHIP JAM IN TRAILER
BACKGROUND: A truck driver was unloading wood chips from his open-top tractor-trailer unit via a movable floor unloading system on a mid-winter day in the Northeast. The trailer had a cross-stability bar centrally located at…
CHIP TRAILER BREAKS APART
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 58-year-old truck driver had more than 30 years of truck-driving experience. He had pulled several loads using this trailer without any problems or incidents. UNSAFE CONDITIONS: The chip trailer was an older,…
LOAD BINDER HANDLE STRIKES TRUCK DRIVER’S FOREHEAD
BACKGROUND: Near the end of a cold, winter day in the South, a truck driver had nearly completed moving the last piece of equipment for the day to a new tract/location. He began to unbind…
CHAIN SAW BAR SPROCKET PROJECTED INTO CUTTER’S FACE SCREEN
BACKGROUND: On a dry, sunny, fall day in the Appalachians, a timber cutter was limbing his way up a large maple tree that he had just felled. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 49-year-old, experienced timber cutter was…
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