Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 117362.015 - Employee Injures Head During Logging Operations

**Accident: 117362.015 -- Report ID: 1054112 -- Event Date: 05/01/2019**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1410468.015	05/02/2019	2411	317724135 - Marshall Logging Llc

At 8:00 a.m. on May 1, 2019, an employee was setting the Skyline clamp of an Acm e motorized slack pulling carriage and signaling to the Yoader operator to send the turn of logs to the landing area of a cable logging unit. The turn of logs h ad been landed when the Yoader operator saw the employee standing in the area th e logs had been yarded from. The employee reported over the hand held radio that he had been struck in the head and started blowing seven long whistles to halt operations. The employee suffered head trauma requiring hospitalization.

Keywords: blunt force trauma, cable logging, head, struck by

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation	Construction
1	1410468.015	0	M	Hospitalized injury		Timber cutting and logging occupations	FallDist: FallHt: Cause: Other Activities-Installing Ornamental And Archite FatCause:

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