Aug 2, 2017 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a sunny spring day in the Appalachians, a tracked feller-buncher was selectively harvesting a timber stand that contained underbrush from past ice storms. It had rained the day before. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 56-year-old logger/feller-buncher...
Aug 4, 2015 | Logging Safety
Feller-Buncher Operator Falls From Loader BACKGROUND: On a clear, spring afternoon in the South, a feller-buncher operator was assisting another employee with the in-woods replacement of a windshield on the knuckleboom loader. PERSONAL...
Aug 4, 2015 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a clear, sunny, winter afternoon at a mill in the South, a log truck driver was removing a load warning flag from the back of his tree-length load of timber. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 51-year-old driver was standing at the rear of his rig removing...
Aug 4, 2015 | Logging Safety
Log Truck Driver Spills Load On Highway BACKGROUND: On a clear spring afternoon, with the temperature in the 70’s and a slight wind, a log truck driver was coming around a curve onto a straightaway section of road. He was on a major divided...
Aug 4, 2015 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a late summer day in the Appalachians, a logging crew member was delimbing and trimming a skidder drag of felled timber. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 65-year-old logging crew member had been logging and operating a chain saw for his entire adult life....
