Abstract: Around 6:00 or 7:00 a.m., Employee #1 left the employer's trailer in a pickup truck and went into the woods to perform pulpwood logging with chain saws. The owner arrived at the site, which contained several rotten trees, about mid-morning and found that the employee had already felled and limbed enough trees to haul a load to the mill. While the owner sharpened a chain saw, Employee #1 took the skidder and started to set a choker to take the trees to the landing. As he worked, a rotten tree fell and struck him on the head. Employee #1, who was not wearing his hard hat, died of multiple fractures. The wind was blowing 15 to 16 mph and gusting to about 30 mph.