Nov 9, 2017 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a cool, clear, early spring morning, three logging business employees were riding in a company-owned crew truck to their jobsite in the southeastern U.S. It was midweek, but the crew had not worked the day before. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The crew...
Nov 9, 2017 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: At the end of a late fall workday in the eastern U.S., a driver was backing his tractor and empty log trailer into his driveway off a rural two-lane road. It was clear, dry, and dark outside. PERSONAL CHRACTERISTICS: The 51-year-old owner/operator had...
Oct 3, 2017 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a warm summer morning in the steep hills of the Appalachians, a timber cutter was felling hardwood trees in a small, brushy clear-cut. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The cutter was a 41-year-old trained feller with over twenty years of experience. He was...
Aug 28, 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...
Aug 2, 2017 | Logging Safety
Landowner Nearly Killed At Log Deck BACKGROUND: On a clear summer day shortly after noon in the South, a loader operator on a high-production logging operation was loading treelength pine sawtimber onto a tractor-trailer PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:...
Aug 2, 2017 | Logging Safety
BACKGROUND: On a cold, dark, snowy, early winter morning in the West, with temperatures in the mid 20s, a wood residual truck arrived at its destination to deliver a load. PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The driver was fully trained in operational procedures at the...
