May 3, 2018 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: Two truck drivers, each driving a loaded log truck with pulpwood that had a large amount of overhang, traveled together during the daytime to deliver their loads to the same mill located in the South. The weather was overcast, but visibility was good. It...
Feb 23, 2018 | Logging Safety
Operator Lacerates Hand While Changing Teeth On Buncher BACKGROUND:On a warm, sunny, summer day in the South, a feller-buncher operator was installing new cutting teeth on a cutting head outfitted on a wheeled feller-buncher. His procedure was to...
Feb 1, 2018 | Logging Safety
Skidder On Highway After Dark Causes Vehicle Wreck BACKGROUND:On a fall evening in the eastern U.S., an equipment operator was moving a skidder from one logging site to another using a public, two-lane highway. Although it was dark, he planned to...
Feb 1, 2018 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: It was mid-morning on a clear, cold December day in the Lake States Region. Markets for forest products were strong, and loggers were busy moving their crews into winter timber sales, hoping to take advantage of rapidly improving logging conditions....
Feb 1, 2018 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: Two loaded log trucks from the same logging company were loaded with treelength pulpwood that had overhanging logs. The two drivers were taking their load to the same mill in the southern U.S., so they traveled together. The weather was clear and sunny....
Jan 4, 2018 | Logging Safety
Mechanic Injured While Repairing Tracked Feller-Buncher BACKGROUND: On a cool, rainy, fall day in the South, a mechanic was replacing hydraulic lines on a tracked feller-buncher. PERSONAL CHRACTERISTICS: The mechanic was in his early 50s and had...
