Logging Safety
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LOGGER SERIOUSLY INJURED WHILE LIMBING
BACKGROUND: A logger was limbing a large pine with a chain saw on a winter day in northern New England. There was approximately 16 inches of snow on the ground. The logger had planned for this to be his last tree of the day before going home. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:...
DISK SAW TOOTH PROPELLED THROUGH WINDSHIELD
BACKGROUND: A track cutter operator was clearcutting a mixed stand of hardwood and pine using a feller-buncher with a high-speed disk saw head on a hot, late summer day on rolling terrain in the Appalachians. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 22-year-old operator had...
FAILURE TO LOCKOUT CAUSES FINGER LACERATION
BACKGROUND: On a mild winter day in the Lake States, a chipping crew was harvesting a stand of aspen. The skidder operator stopped to tell his supervisor that the oil pressure light was blinking on and off. The supervisor lifted the hood to check the oil light wire...
REMOVING SKIDDER TIRE CAUSES BACK STRAIN
BACKGROUND: A skidder operator in the Lake States was skidding hardwood logs when his tire went flat. A repairman arrived on the site to replace the deflated skidder tire. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTIC: The skidder operator was 22 years old and was not…
DRIVER SLIPS ON ICE
BACKGROUND: A truck driver in the Lake States had dismounted from the truck cab and headed for the back of the chip trailer in order to shut the rear doors. It was winter, and the ground conditions were extremely icy. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The driver was a...
WASP ATTACK CAUSES MEDICAL EMERGENCY
BACKGROUND: Two foresters with a Southern timber company were marking timber in a hardwood stand prior to harvest. It was a warm, early summer day in central Alabama. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: One of the two foresters, a 30-year-old man, had worked on this timberland...
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