Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and 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 of moving to a new tract. The driver was driving the posted speed…
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 weather was not a contributing factor to the accident. PERSONAL…
Collision With Train Injures Log Truck Driver
BACKGROUND: On a spring morning in the Southeastern U.S., a log truck driver was starting to transport his second load of the day. Weather was not a contributing factor to the accident as conditions were clear and dry. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The…
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 present. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The…
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 excavator with a disc cutting attachment…
Sawhead Projects Wood Splinter into Vehicle Tire
BACKGROUND: On a clear summer morning in the Appalachians, a logging crew was harvesting hardwood timber in rolling terrain. The logging crew had parked a service truck on the edge of the log deck as usual when they arrived in the morning….
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