Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
Early-Morning Crew Truck Wreck
BACKGROUND: On a cool, clear, early spring morning, three logging business employees were riding in a company-owned crew truck to their jobsite in the southeastern U.S. It was midweek, but the crew had not worked the day before. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The crew...
Passenger Vehicle Collides With Backing Log Truck
BACKGROUND: At the end of a late fall workday in the eastern U.S., a driver was backing his tractor and empty log trailer into his driveway off a rural two-lane road. It was clear, dry, and dark outside. PERSONAL CHRACTERISTICS: The 51-year-old owner/operator had...
Vine Pulls Dead Tree Timber Cutter
BACKGROUND: On a warm summer morning in the steep hills of the Appalachians, a timber cutter was felling hardwood trees in a small, brushy clear-cut. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The cutter was a 41-year-old trained feller with over twenty years of experience. He was...
Tracked Feller-Buncher Slides Downhill, Overturns
BACKGROUND: On a sunny spring day in the Appalachians, a tracked feller-buncher was selectively harvesting a timber stand that contained underbrush from past ice storms. It had rained the day before. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 56-year-old logger/feller-buncher...
LANDOWNER NEARLY KILLED AT LOG DECK
BACKGROUND: On a clear summer day shortly after noon in the South, a loader operator on a high-production logging operation was loading treelength pine sawtimber onto a tractor-trailer PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The loader operator was approximately…
FROZEN WOOD RESIDUALS LOAD PINS TRUCK DRIVER
BACKGROUND: On a cold, dark, snowy, early winter morning in the West, with temperatures in the mid 20s, a wood residual truck arrived at its destination to deliver a load. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The driver was fully trained in operational procedures at the...
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