Abstract: Two employees were tree harvesting. Employee #1 was using a chain saw while a coworker was operating a skidder to transport the felled trees to a loading yard. The coworker returned from the loading yard to the harvesting area. He then left the skidder and picked up a spare chain saw and began to fell a tree within one tree length of Employee #1. Employee #1 finished his cut and began to delimb his tree. The coworker finished his cut but the tree pivoted from the intended direction of fall, and fell onto Employee #1, fracturing his head, face, and ribs. Employee #1 died two days later in the hospital.