Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 200841161 - Employee Is Killed When Struck in the Chest by Tree

Accident Summary Nr: 200841161 -- Report ID: 0524530 -- Event Date: 11/22/2005
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303822944	11/23/2005	2411	113310	Forth Lumber, Inc.

Abstract: At approximately 1:00 p.m. on November 22, 2005, Employee #1 was felling timber thinning the area. He was cutting down a tree with a chainsaw. He made an open-face notch, two corner cuts, and had left the standard thickness hinge required. He was working alone and was wearing safety glasses, gloves and boots. The tree kicked back and struck him in the chest. He received a chest trauma, broken ribs, bruised lungs and heart, stomach pushed up through the diaphragm, and a cracked pelvis. Employee #1 died.

Keywords: CHEST, HEART, KICK BACK, TREE FELLING, PPE, CHAIN SAW, TREE, RIB, STRUCK BY, FLYING OBJECT

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	303822944			Fatality	Other	Timber cutting and logging occupations

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