Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 132605.015 - Employee is killed when struck by falling tree limbs

Accident Summary Nr: 132605.015 -- Report ID: 0454715 -- Event Date: 01/20/2021
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
1511077.015	01/21/2021		113310	Dixie Logging Llc

Abstract: At 2:45 p.m. on January 20, 2021, an employee was using a chain saw to cut down a poplar tree. The employee was killed when the tree he was felling struck a hickory tree causing limbs of the tree he was felling to break off and strike him in the head.

Keywords: Blunt force, Blunt force trauma, Chain Saw, Hard Hat, Head, Logger, Logging, PPE, Skull, Struck By, Tree, Tree Felling, Tree Limb

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury
1	1511077.015	61	M	Fatality

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