May 3, 2018 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a clear, dry, winter afternoon in the southeastern U.S., a log truck driver was preparing to attach a high-visibility end-of-load flag on the back of his load of tree length pine pulpwood. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 60-year-old driver had been...
May 3, 2018 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a clear, dry, spring afternoon in the southeastern U.S., a logging crew was “select cut” thinning on a tract with mixed hardwoods and pines. The timber cutter had just manually felled an 18-inch poplar along a property line, but the tree became lodged...
May 3, 2018 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: Two truck drivers, each driving a loaded log truck with pulpwood that had a large amount of overhang, traveled together during the daytime to deliver their loads to the same mill located in the South. The weather was overcast, but visibility was good. It...
Feb 23, 2018 | Logging Safety
Operator Lacerates Hand While Changing Teeth On Buncher BACKGROUND:On a warm, sunny, summer day in the South, a feller-buncher operator was installing new cutting teeth on a cutting head outfitted on a wheeled feller-buncher. His procedure was to...
Feb 1, 2018 | Logging Safety
Skidder On Highway After Dark Causes Vehicle Wreck BACKGROUND:On a fall evening in the eastern U.S., an equipment operator was moving a skidder from one logging site to another using a public, two-lane highway. Although it was dark, he planned to...
