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Accident: 170239834 - Employee'S Leg Severed By Log Loader Track

Accident: 170239834 -- Report ID: 1055310 -- Event Date: 07/11/1990
InspectionOpen DateSICEstablishment Name
11151118407/11/19902411Pacific Logging Inc
Employee #1 normally worked as a chokerman but had been called to the landing to help the other chaser because of the large amount of brush. The loader (shovel) operator had been laying logs in front, along the haul road. When the operator swung the loader around to grab more logs out of the chute area, he noticed that both chasers were near the yarder. At the same time that the operator swung the logs around to the limbing area, Employee #1 walked down beside the loader carrying his chain saw. As the employee approached the end of the loader's track, he fell with his right leg going beneath the front end of the moving log loader track. His leg was severed just below the knee.
Keywords: severed, choker setter, fall, loader, logging, run over, shovel, leg
Employee # Inspection Age Sex Degree Nature Occupation
1 111511184 Hospitalized injury Amputation Occupation not reported

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