Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
CHAIN SAW CHAPS PREVENT INJURY
BACKGROUND: A timber cutter was limbing a felled tree on a winter day in the Appalachians. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The timber cutter's age was not reported, but he had several years of experience in logging. He was considered fully trained, and he was wearing...
LOG PILE COLLAPSES ON TRUCK DRIVER
BACKGROUND: A truck driver was binding down a tractor-trailer load of hardwood logs at a timber harvesting operation on a clear, hot spring day in the southern Appalachians. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 40-year-old driver had worked as a truck…
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