Accident Report Detail

Accident Summary Nr: 201620614 - Employee injured when struck and thrown from logging choker

Accident Summary Nr: 201620614 -- Report ID: 1054116 -- Event Date: 01/17/2001
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
303922991	01/18/2001	0851	0	Independent Thinning Inc

Abstract: A yarder engineer landed three logs on a landing and Employee #1 went in to unhook the chokers under a Bowman motorized carriage. The yarder engineer inadvertently released the skidder line brake which allowed the carriage to slide down the skyline trapping Employee #1 between the chocker cables and the two remaining chocked logs. The carriage drifting down the skyline and pulled the two remaining chocked logs and Employee #1 off the landing approximately 93 ft from where the logs where landed. Employee #1 was hospitalized with two fractured vertebrae in his neck with paralysis.

Keywords: FRACTURE, LOG, PINNED, CAUGHT BY, CAUGHT BETWEEN, CRUSHED, INDUSTRIAL TRUCK, LOG TRUCK, NECK, SKIDDER

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	303922991			Hospitalized injury	Fracture	Occupation not reported

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