Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 73671.015 - Employee Is Killed In Fall While Cutting Down Tree

**Accident: 73671.015 -- Report ID: 0216000 -- Event Date: 01/05/2015**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1018364.015	01/06/2015		Joel Ramirez

At approximately 2:45 pm. On January 5, 2015, an employee was performing arboric ultural operation. He was cutting down a tree, making a notch on the top of the tree trunk with a chain saw. The employee accidentally cut his own positioning rope with the chain saw and fell 30 to the ground. He suffered head and neck tra uma and was killed.

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

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature
1	1018364.015	47	M	Fatality

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