Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
Log Truck Driver Slips On Loose Wood
BACKGROUND: On a clear, dry, winter afternoon in the southeastern U.S., a log truck driver was preparing to attach a high-visibility end-of-load flag on the back of his load of tree length pine pulpwood. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 60-year-old driver had been...
Lodged Tree Breaks Loose And Injures Timber Cutter
BACKGROUND: On a clear, dry, spring afternoon in the southeastern U.S., a logging crew was “select cut” thinning on a tract with mixed hardwoods and pines. The timber cutter had just manually felled an 18-inch poplar along a property line, but the tree became lodged...
Following Too Closely
BACKGROUND: Two truck drivers, each driving a loaded log truck with pulpwood that had a large amount of overhang, traveled together during the daytime to deliver their loads to the same mill located in the South. The weather was overcast, but visibility was good. It...
Operator Lacerates Hand While Changing Teeth On Buncher
BACKGROUND:On a warm, sunny, summer day in the South, a feller-buncher operator was installing new cutting teeth on a cutting head outfitted on a wheeled feller-buncher. His procedure was to use a 36-inch breaker bar to loosen the one-inch bolts…
Skidder On Highway After Dark Causes Vehicle Wreck
BACKGROUND:On a fall evening in the eastern U.S., an equipment operator was moving a skidder from one logging site to another using a public, two-lane highway. Although it was dark, he planned to drive the skidder a couple hundred yards down a…
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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