Mar 28, 2012 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: A timber cutter was limbing a felled tree on a winter day in the Appalachians. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The timber cutter’s age was not reported, but he had several years of experience in logging. He was considered fully trained, and he was wearing...
Mar 28, 2012 | Logging Safety
Log Pile Collapses On Truck Driver BACKGROUND: A truck driver was binding down a tractor-trailer load of hardwood logs at a timber harvesting operation on a clear, hot spring day in the southern Appalachians. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The...
