Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 170628093 - Employee injured when struck by falling tree

Accident Summary Nr: 170628093 -- Report ID: 0950623 -- Event Date: 08/09/1994
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
119757987	08/25/1994	2411	0	Medici Logging Inc

Abstract: Employee #1, a timber faller for Medici Logging, felled a large fir tree that brushed another tree 100 ft away as it fell. The brushed tree was also a fir tree and appeared to be a sound tree. The brushed tree, in fact, was rotten at its base and throughout the trunk and was knocked over. As it fell, it swung around and came back toward where Employee #1 was working. As he was moving away from the tree, he fell. The top of the brushed tree struck him when he was approximately 20 ft away from the stump of the tree that he had felled. He was hospitalized. No safety violations were established.

Keywords: FRACTURE, TREE FELLING, TREE, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT, LOGGING, HIP

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	119757987			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Timber cutting and logging occupations

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