Logging Safety
Thank you to the Forest Resources Association and TEAM Safe Trucking for supplying these articles on logging and trucking safety.
Close Call With An ATV And Large Stick
BACKGROUND: On a summer morning in the south, a landowning company employee was riding down a company woods road on an all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and passing through an area that had been used as a loading deck. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The company employee was a...
Pickup Truck Backs Over Manager
BACKGROUND: On a cold and windy spring morning in the Northeast, a log procurement manager and a log buyer were on the woodyard talking about moving to a different pile of logs to be scaled. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: Both individuals had over 20 years of experience,...
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...
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