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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 138356.015 - Employee Is Struck And Killed By Sliding Wood Beam

**Accident: 138356.015 -- Report ID: 0215800 -- Event Date: 08/16/2021**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1549027.015	08/20/2021		Levi Byler

At 2:00 p.m. on August 16, 2021, an employee was picking up small pieces of wood under the slide and placing them on the shaker to go into the chipper. As the e mployee was putting the wood pieces on the shaker, his coworker, operating the s awmill, pushed the alarm to alert him that a processed beam was coming down the slide. The employee stood up to look and as he did the beam came down the slide and struck him in the back of the head fatally wounding him.

Keywords: beam, blunt force trauma, head, sawmill, slide, struck by

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	1549027.015	19	M	Fatality		Sawing machine operators

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