Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200350064 - Employee killed when struck by falling tree

Accident Summary Nr: 200350064 -- Report ID: 0453710 -- Event Date: 08/28/1996
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
300258431	09/04/1996	2411	0	Hodges Logging

Abstract: Employee #1, the co-owner of the company, turned over the skidder he had been operating to a coworker. He informed the coworker that he was going to check the property line on the east side of the tract. Two trees that had been cut earlier had become lodged against other trees. Apparently, one of these trees came loose and fell on Employee #1 as he was surveying the area. He was killed.

Keywords: WORK RULES, LODGED TREE, TREE, STRUCK BY, LOGGING

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	300258431			Fatality	Concussion	Timber cutting and logging occupations

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