Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201201407 - Employee injured by fall from logging carriage

Accident Summary Nr: 201201407 -- Report ID: 1054114 -- Event Date: 05/24/2001
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
304069636	05/29/2001	4212	0	David L Penegor Inc

Abstract: At 1:30 p.m. on May 24, 2001, Employee #1, a rigging slinger, on the logging side of a logging carriage, was lifted into the air to a height of approximately one hundred feet. Unable to reverse the action of the motorized logging carriage, Employee #1 held on as long as he physically could. The yarder operator, being alerted to the situation, was lowering the carriage but Employee #1 fell off at an approximate height of thirty feet. Employee #1 dislocated both hips, fractured a rib and a femur in addition to the various cuts and bruises he received in the fall. Employee #1 was hospitalized.

Keywords: FRACTURE, LACERATION, DISLOCATED, RIB, FALL, HIP, CABLE LOGGING, CONTUSION, LEG

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	304069636			Hospitalized injury	Other	Supervisors, forestry and logging workers

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