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Logging Equipment Loss Due To Fire

Logging Equipment Loss Due To Fire

Logging Equipment Loss Due To Fire       BACKGROUND: On a logging job in the Lake States Region during February, an operator of harvesting equipment had blown a hydraulic hose. He called for assistance from a skidder operator for a tow to the landing...
Ice Causes Truck Operator To Fall

Ice Causes Truck Operator To Fall

Ice Causes Truck Operator To Fall       BACKGROUND: On a winter day in the Lake States Region an employee of a logging company was showing the truck operator how to secure a loader on a lowboy trailer. The conditions were wintery with snow and ice...
Fatality From Rotating Disc On Excavator

Fatality From Rotating Disc On Excavator

Fatality From Rotating Disc On Excavator       BACKGROUND: On a winter day in the Pacific Northwest an equipment operator trimming brush alongside a logging road died after he was apparently pulled into a rotating disc used to cut brush. He was using an...