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Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 69010.015 - Employee Falls While Trimming Tree And Is Killed

**Accident: 69010.015 -- Report ID: 0352410 -- Event Date: 10/17/2014**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1002212.015	10/22/2014		Michael Nichols

At 4:30 p.m. on October 17, 2014, an employee was in a tree, cutting limbs.The e mployee was using a small chain saw. He was fully tied off with the use of a sad dle and secondary safety line. The employee fell approximately 50 feet to the gr ound when the section of tree that the employee was tied to broke approximately 20 feet below the tie-off point. The employee had the primary safety line looped around the top of a large limb that forked into the body of the tree approximat ely 20 feet below. The employee sustained broken bones and head trauma. The empl oyee died.

Keywords: chain saw, fall, fall protection, tree trimming

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature	Occupation
1	1002212.015	50	M	Fatality		Sales engineers

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