Apr 10, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: A track cutter operator was clearcutting a mixed stand of hardwood and pine using a feller-buncher with a high-speed disk saw head on a hot, late summer day on rolling terrain in the Appalachians. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 22-year-old operator had...
Apr 10, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a mild winter day in the Lake States, a chipping crew was harvesting a stand of aspen. The skidder operator stopped to tell his supervisor that the oil pressure light was blinking on and off. The supervisor lifted the hood to check the oil light wire...
Apr 10, 2012 | Logging Safety
Removing Skidder Tire Causes Back Strain BACKGROUND: A skidder operator in the Lake States was skidding hardwood logs when his tire went flat. A repairman arrived on the site to replace the deflated skidder tire. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTIC: The...
Apr 10, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: A truck driver in the Lake States had dismounted from the truck cab and headed for the back of the chip trailer in order to shut the rear doors. It was winter, and the ground conditions were extremely icy. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The driver was a...
Apr 10, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: Two foresters with a Southern timber company were marking timber in a hardwood stand prior to harvest. It was a warm, early summer day in central Alabama. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: One of the two foresters, a 30-year-old man, had worked on this timberland...
Apr 10, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: An operations forester was traveling in a pickup truck on a private gravel road in late summer. Conditions were dry and very dusty. The gravel road had been recently graded. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The forester was in his late 40s and had 23 years of...
