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Logging Safety

 

Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.

 

 

Operator Pinches Finger While Moving Loader

Operator Pinches Finger While Moving Loader

BACKGROUND: On a warm summer morning in the southeastern U.S., a loader operator assisted other crew members in preparing a loader for movement to another job site. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The operator was in his forties and had worked in the woods for over 12...

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Unsecured Pulpwood Log Damages Truck Cab

Unsecured Pulpwood Log Damages Truck Cab

BACKGROUND: On a clear, summer day in the Appalachians, a logging employee was driving (“spotting”) a load of logs from the log deck to a trailer drop site near the end of the woods road for pickup by a different truck. The road was dry and the…

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Logging Equipment No Match For Locomotive

BACKGROUND: It was mid-morning on a clear, cold December day in the Lake States region. Markets for forest products were strong, and loggers were busy moving their crews into winter timber sales, hoping to take advantage of rapidly improving logging conditions....

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Logger Struck And Killed By Log Truck

Logger Struck And Killed By Log Truck

BACKGROUND:On a late fall morning in the Northeast, a flatbed truck delivering logging equipment to a site had stopped at the beginning of an icy logging road to put tire chains on. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:The truck driver was in his mid-twenties,…

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Logger Hit by Deadwood Lives

Logger Hit by Deadwood Lives

BACKGROUND: A logging company in the Lake States Region was harvesting timber in the fall of the year. The leaves had changed color and about half of them had fallen. The wind was calm; weather was not a factor in this incident, but the time of day (late afternoon)...

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