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Accident Summary Nr: 712240 - A TREE UPROOTED UNEXPECTEDLY, FELL AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE

Accident Summary Nr: 712240 -- Report ID: 1054116 -- Event Date: 12/04/1986
Inspection Nr	Date Opened	SIC	NAICS	Establishment Name
3071552	12/05/1986	2411	0	Campbell & Sturgill Logging Incorporated

Abstract: ON DECEMBER 4, 1986, AT APPROXIMATELY 1:40 PM, EMPLOYEE #1 AND ANOTHER EMPLOYEE FINISHED FELLING A TREE. THEY PUT AWAY THEIR TOOLS FOR THE DAY AND STARTED WALKING DOWN THE HILL. THEY HAD WALKED ABOUT 100 FEET WHEN THEY HEARD A NOISE AND TURNED AROUND. A TREE HAD UPROOTED, AND WAS FALLING TOWARD THEM. THEY STARTED TO RUN. THE SECOND EMPLOYEE, WHO WAS AHEAD, SAW THE TOP OF THE TREE HIT THE GROUND RIGHT BEHIND HIM. HE STOPPED AND LOOKED BACK. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS LYING ON THE GROUND WITH PART OF THE TREE TOP ON HIM. THE SECOND EMPLOYEE CALLED FOR HELP TO A NEARBY LOGGING SITE. A HELICOPTER WAS CALLED. THE CUTTERS FROM THE OTHER SITE ARRIVED AND FOUND THAT EMPLOYEE #1 HAD NO PULSE. THE HELICOPTER ARRIVED ABOUT 20 MINUTES LATER. EMPLOYEE #1 WAS TRANSPORTED TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD ON ARRIVAL.

Keywords: TREE FELLING, CRUSHED, TREE, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT, LOGGING

Employee Details
Employee #	Inspection Nr	Age	Sex	Degree of Injury	Nature of Injury	Occupation
1	3071552			Fatality	Other	Supervisors, forestry and logging workers

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