Sep 12, 2016 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: In late October in the Northeast, a mechanic for a logging and trucking contractor was working on an excavator at the contractor’s shop. The excavator was fitted with a brush grapple, which was used to feed logging slash into a chipper or grinder. The task...
Aug 10, 2016 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a fall day in the South, a landowner was using his pickup truck and a chain to pull residual tops from a harvesting operation up to a rough woods road where he would cut them into firewood. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The landowner was 76 years old. His...
Oct 9, 2015 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a clear, cool, winter day in the South, a log truck driver was waiting for his truck to be loaded with pine pulpwood. His truck was at the landing on a pine plantation clear-cut operation. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 44-year-old truck driver had been...
Aug 6, 2015 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a spring afternoon in the Appalachians, an independent mechanic shop owner was adjusting the air brakes on a dump truck owned by a logging contractor. The mechanic asked for help from the owner of the logging company. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The...
Aug 4, 2015 | Logging Safety
Feller-Buncher Operator Falls From Loader BACKGROUND: On a clear, spring afternoon in the South, a feller-buncher operator was assisting another employee with the in-woods replacement of a windshield on the knuckleboom loader. PERSONAL...
Aug 4, 2015 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a clear, sunny, winter afternoon at a mill in the South, a log truck driver was removing a load warning flag from the back of his tree-length load of timber. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 51-year-old driver was standing at the rear of his rig removing...
