Aug 2, 2017 | Logging Safety
Feller-Buncher Drops Tree On Crew Member's Truck BACKGROUND: On a clear, summer morning in the South, a logging contractor was cutting timber with a rubber-tired feller-buncher on a final harvest. The terrain was flat, and the timber was a mature...
Aug 2, 2017 | Logging Safety
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...
Jul 27, 2017 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a breezy and cold early winter weekend day in the Northeast, a conventional logger was felling hardwood trees. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The logger was 38 years old. The extent of his training is unknown. He had previously been employed in the...
Mar 31, 2017 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a late winter afternoon in the Southeast, a log truck driver was unbinding his load of treelength pine pulpwood at a mill’s unbinding station. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The approximately 70-year-old log truck driver had many years of driving experience...
Jan 11, 2017 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a dry, cool, early spring morning in the Appalachians, a timber cutter was felling marked trees in a hardwood stand. The terrain was hilly but not difficult for manual felling operations. The trees had not yet leafed out. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The...
Dec 9, 2016 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: A bulldozer operator was working alone clearing a logging road on an early spring morning in the Appalachians. The ground was still frozen. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 23-year-old bulldozer operator was co-owner of the construction company that had...
