Aug 2, 2012 | Logging Safety
Near-Fatal Electrocution Involving Knuckleboom Loader BACKGROUND: On a foggy and slightly rainy day in the Appalachians, a logging crew was moving a skidder and log loader to a new tract. The loader had been moved from the log deck to a location...
Aug 2, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a wet winter day in the Appalachians, a forwarder operator was loading his machine in the woods. The tract was a clearcut of predominantly pulpwood on gently rolling, mountainous terrain. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 43-year-old forwarder operator had...
May 8, 2012 | Logging Safety
Cable Hook Strikes Driver's Face During Unbinding BACKGROUND: On a fall morning in the South, a log truck driver was pulling the cables off his load at a woodyard unbinding station. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The contract log truck driver was fully...
May 8, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: The owner-operator of a tractor-trailer log truck in the Northeast was having his truck loaded with 8-foot pulpwood at a concentration log yard. The yard had a very slight surface grade. It was a winter day, clear and cold. Weather was not a factor....
May 8, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a late winter afternoon in the West, a company’s mechanic was repairing a stroke delimber. Weather conditions were good—cool and clear. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The experienced mechanic was in his 40s, and had worked in the woods for more than 30...
