Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 14548002 - Employee killed when pinned by rotating loader

Accident Summary Nr: 14548002 -- Report ID: 1050210 -- Event Date: 05/05/1988
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
103677035	05/05/1988	1611	0	Southeast Timber, Inc.

Abstract: A loader operator was cleaning brush and small trees from a logging landing area where Employee #1 was a chaser. The landing was too small to safely operate the machinery. The loader operator couldn't swing the machine around between the log deck and the Madill yarder, so he had to back out of the landing area to swing the loader. During this operation, Employee #1 became pinned between the loader counterweight and the yarder. He was killed. The boom of the loader made it difficult for the operator to see Employee #1. Employee #1 should have been more alert and not so trusting of the movements of the machine.

Keywords: OBSTRUCTED VIEW, PINNED, WORK RULES, CONSTRUCTION, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED, LOADER, INATTENTION

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	103677035			Fatality	Puncture	Timber cutting and logging occupations

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