Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
SKIDDER ROLLS BACK, PINNING OPERATOR’S LEG
BACKGROUND: A logger was cutting and skidding large oak trees on a warm summer day in the Lake States. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 43-year-old logger had 25 years' logging experience. He was considered fully trained, although he had had previous injuries. He was...
SPRING POLE PROPELS SAW INTO LOGGER’S FACE
BACKGROUND: A logger was felling hardwood sawtimber on a clear, sunny day in January in the Lake States, as part of a two-man logging team. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 31-year old logger had four years’ experience cutting timber. He was…
BRANCH FALLS FROM HAZARD TREE AT LOG LANDING
BACKGROUND: A logging crew was clearcutting a hollow in the Appalachians. The hollow was to be used as a hollowfill for an impending surface mine. The crew was in somewhat of a rush to get the timber removed before mining operations began. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:...
SAWHEAD FELLER-BUNCHER STARTS WOODS FIRE
BACKGROUND: A logger was clearcutting a pine plantation using a rubber-tired, sawhead feller-buncher on rolling terrain in the Appalachians. It was a clear spring day, and fuel conditions were dry. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 40-year-old…
SERVICE TRUCK DESTROYED BY FIRE
BACKGROUND: Two logging company employees were leaving the woods after working half a day on a Saturday morning. It was a mild early spring day in the Appalachians. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 31-year-old driver of the truck was the owner's son-in-law, and he served...
LOG TRUCK HITS FOUR STOPPED VEHICLES
BACKGROUND: A log truck driver was driving his loaded truck one winter day in the South. Weather was not a factor in the accident. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The truck driver was experienced and in good health. UNSAFE ACT OR CONDITION: The log truck was operating with...
Have A Question?
Send Us A Message