Apr 10, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: A logging company employee was felling trees with a chain saw on a warm summer day in the Appalachians. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 43-year-old employee had worked for his present employer about five months. His normal job was trimming trees that had...
Apr 10, 2012 | Logging Safety
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: Unknown. UNSAFE ACT OR CONDITION: The excavator operator attempted to pull the truck out with a tow chain attached to the truck’s bumper hitch. The excavator and operator were facing the truck during the pull. It is unknown if the excavator...
Apr 10, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a fall day in the Eastern U.S., a mobile crane was traveling through a mill’s woodyard. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The mobile crane operator was in his mid 40s and had worked in mill maintenance for about ten years. UNSAFE ACT AND CONDITION: The crane...
Apr 10, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: A driver was waiting for his truck to be loaded at the log deck on a summer morning in the Southeast. The driver had previously made adjustments to his truck’s clutch, and he decided to continue working on it while waiting for equipment to clear the...
Apr 10, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: The owner-operator of a tractor-trailer log truck in the Northeast was having his truck loaded with tree-length wood. It was a fall day, clear and cool. Weather was not a factor. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The driver had over 5 years of experience and was...
