Mar 17, 2023 | Logging Safety
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...
Feb 10, 2023 | Logging Safety, Trucking Safety
Log Truck Driver Injured During Crash While Not Wearing A Seatbelt BACKGROUND: On a fall morning in the Southeastern U.S., a truck driver hauling an empty log trailer was traveling eastbound on a state highway. The logging crew was in the process...
Jan 17, 2023 | Logging Safety, Trucking Safety
Driver Injured While Failing To Maintain A Safe Following Distance BACKGROUND: On a spring afternoon in the Southeastern U.S., a log truck driver was transporting his second load of the day to the consuming mill. Conditions were clear and dry, so...
Apr 28, 2022 | Logging Safety
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...
Mar 22, 2022 | Logging Safety
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...
