Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
LOG TRUCK OVERTURNS
BACKGROUND: A log truck driver was driving his loaded truck one day in the South. Weather was not a factor in the accident. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 40-year-old truck driver was in good health.| UNSAFE ACT OR CONDITION: According to a subsequent Department of...
CHAIN SAW CHAPS PREVENT INJURY
BACKGROUND: A timber cutter was limbing a felled tree on a winter day in the Appalachians. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The timber cutter's age was not reported, but he had several years of experience in logging. He was considered fully trained, and he was wearing...
LOG PILE COLLAPSES ON TRUCK DRIVER
BACKGROUND: A truck driver was binding down a tractor-trailer load of hardwood logs at a timber harvesting operation on a clear, hot spring day in the southern Appalachians. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 40-year-old driver had worked as a truck…
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