Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
LOG TRUCK OVERTURNS ON SOFT WOODS ROAD
BACKGROUND: A log truck left the landing fully loaded with hardwood pulpwood on a mild fall morning in the Appalachians. It was overcast, windy, and wet, following three days of rain. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The driver…
TRUCKER INJURES FACE WHILE CLIMBING ONTO TRAILER BED
BACKGROUND: A log truck had just been unloaded in the woodyard of a paper mill in the Northeast, and the trucker drove it to the designated clean-off area to remove debris from the trailer bed.…
SKIDDER DRIVER SLIPS
BACKGROUND: A skidder operator was skidding bunched pine in the Lake States. Weather conditions were good, and the ground was flat. It was nearing quitting time, and the operator was expected to attend his son’s…
FALLING TREE PINS AND KILLS TIMBER CUTTER
BACKGROUND: A timber cutter was felling a 20-inch-diameter, 100-foot-tall poplar on a 40 percent slope on a summer day in the Appalachians. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 47-year-old timber cutter had been working as a logger for…
TRAIN STRIKES LOG TRUCK
BACKGROUND: A log truck driver was driving his loaded truck one spring day in the South. Weather was not a factor in the accident. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The truck driver was experienced and in good health.…
LOG TRUCK OVERTURNS
BACKGROUND: A log truck driver was driving his loaded truck one day in the South. Weather was not a factor in the accident. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 40-year-old truck driver was in good health.| UNSAFE ACT…
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