Accident Report Detail
Accident: 41339.015 - Employee Is Struck By Falling And Is Killed
Accident: 41339.015 -- Report ID: 0316400 -- Event Date: 02/21/2013 | |||||||
Inspection | Open Date | SIC | Establishment Name | ||||
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891556.015 | 02/21/2013 | Best Logging | |||||
At approximately 11:15 a.m. on February 21, 2013, Employee #1 was using a Stihl MS660 chainsaw with a 24-in. bar. Employee #1 was not wearing a hard hat, leg, foot, eye or face protection. He felled a 70 foot tall white oak tree, 22-in. i n diameter, which became lodged in the top of surrounding trees. Approximately 8 feet away, he then felled an 81 foot by 25.5-in. diameter red oak tree. As th e red oak fell he retreated but was struck by the white oak tree that he felled earlier that was stuck. Employee #1 was killed. | |||||||
Keywords:
chain saw, crushed, falling object, hard hat, ppe, struck by, tree felling
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Employee # | Inspection | Age | Sex | Degree | Nature | Occupation | |
1 | 891556.015 | 44 | M | Fatality | Chainsaw Operator |