Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
CHIP PARTICLES BLOW INTO DRIVER’S EYE
BACKGROUND: At a Western mill, a chip truck driver was loading chips from a clamshell bin. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The chip truck driver had four years of experience in hauling chip loads. He had received a standard orientation of one week with an experienced chip...
TRUCK DRIVER TWISTS KNEE IN WOODYARD
BACKGROUND: On a winter evening at a Pacific Northwest mill, a chip truck driver, while collecting a load under a bunker, was walking from the cab to the trailer. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The chip truck driver had only five weeks' experience on this particular job,...
PARTIALLY CUT TREE LEFT STANDING
BACKGROUND: A chain saw operator and a skidder operator were working close together during the mid-morning hours on a clear, windy day in the summer. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The skidder operator was considered to be fully trained with 20 years of work experience and...
MECHANIC FALLS FROM SKIDDER
BACKGROUND: It was lightly raining on a mid-March day just before noon. A contractor's employees were using a skidder to remove a hardwood log from a loaded log truck. A mechanic had been operating the winch of the skidder and began to exit the cab. PERSONAL...
Log Truck Nearly Collides With Helicopter
BACKGROUND: A helicopter drip-torch burning operation was set up in a wide turnout of a main logging road in the Inland West. The operation included a fuel truck, a batch truck, and the supporting ground crew. The weather was clear with good visibility. The incident...
Jeep Collides With Loaded Log Truck
BACKGROUND: A tractor-trailer unit loaded with logs was headed northbound and approaching a highway junction when the driver noticed a Jeep traveling westbound toward the same intersection. It was late afternoon on a cold, sunny winter day in the Rocky Mountain West....
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