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…
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…
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