Accident Report Detail

Occupational Safety and Health Administration OSHA

Accident: 79841.015 - Employee Is Struck By Tree And Later Dies

**Accident: 79841.015 -- Report ID: 0454714 -- Event Date: 09/09/2015**
Inspection	Open Date	SIC	Establishment Name
1094313.015	09/24/2015		Mark Martin

At 2:00 p.m. on September 9, 2015, Employee #1 was with a crew cutting trees. Th e trees were stacked in a pile and then pulled out of the area by a skidder. The employee walked into the area near the skidder to get his chainsaw. Employee #1 was struck in his mid-section by a tree as it was being pulled out of the woods by the skidder. The employee was airlifted to a local hospital where he died o n September 21, 2015.

Keywords: abdomen, chain saw, skidder, struck by, tree, tree felling

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection	Age	Sex	Degree	Nature
1	1094313.015	32	M	Fatality

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