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Safety/OSHA
Safety Alert: Dump Truck Rolls Over Logger in Garage - A dump truck lurched forward, and the rear wheels ran over both of a logger’s legs. (6/1/2013)
Safety Alert: Equipment Operator Drops
Tree Onto Power Line - An equipment operator felled a 12-inch-diameter pine and laid it down. The top of this tree contacted and broke one wire on a nearby 3-wire power line. (5/1/2013)
Safety Alert: Self-Loader Operator
Fatally Electrocuted - While reaching for a bucket of wood, the loader boom came close enough to the power line to allow an electric arc to energize the loader. (4/1/2013)
Safety Alert: Fatality from Failure to Observe Safe Work Zone - A welder was somehow pinched between the tracks of a feller buncher and some part of service truck or the extended ramp, and received a deep wound to the inside of his right thigh. The femoral artery was completed severed. (11/1/2012)
Safety Alert: Forwarder with Brake Problems Overturns
- A forwarder “took off” down a hill andtraveled 15 to 20 feet before rolling over on its side. (10/1/2012)
Safety Alert: Near-Fatal Electrocution Involving Knuckleboom Loader - A logger survives an incident with some mild burns on his right hand, and doctors had to remove a portion of a toe on his right foot. (8/1/2012)
Safety Alert: Mechanic Crushes Leg
While Repairing Delimber - An experiencecd mechanic finished repairing a piece of equipment faster than anticipated and decided to move to the next project without informing anyone of his whereabouts. (6/1/2012)
Safety Alert: Log Truck Runs Over Driver - The driver of a truck left the engine running while he worked on the clutch from under the hood of his truck. Suddenly the truck jumped into a forward gear (possibly due to the clutch engaging) and knocked the driver to the ground. (5/1/2012)
Safety Alert: Mobile Crane Operator Seriously Injured On Woodyard - A mobile crane was traveling through a mill’s woodyard with the boom in the raised position, rather than in the fully lowered position. This was a recipe for disaster. (4/1/2012)
Skidder Fatally Pins Logger
- A logger is fatally injured when his head and body were caught between a skidder’s rear fender and a tree. The logger died at the scene of massive trauma to the body. Rescue crews extricated him and transported him to a hospital, but he was pronounced dead on arrival. (12/1/2011)
Safety Alert: Chain Saw Lacerates Operator’s Foot - A chain saw cut through a boot and lacerated the top of an operator''s left foot above the ankle. (10/1/2011)
Safety Alert: Driver Falls Off Trailer While Cleaning Bark - A truck driver clearing loose bark and wood debris off his log trailer slipped and fell off his trailer. He broke his shoulder and arm. (9/1/2011)
Safety Alert: Driver Jerks Strap Hook On To Face
- Driver Jerks Strap Hook On To Face
(8/1/2011)
Safety Alert: Log Trailer Tips Over on Firewood Cutter - A firewood cutter was killed instantly by the impact of a loaded trailer full of wood as it tipped over and fell. (7/1/2011)
Safety Alert: Chip Trailer Breaks Apart - An (undetected) rotten chip trailer floor shattered, and broke in half and collapsed near its midpoint, beyond where the support beams ended. (6/1/2011)
Safety Alert: Driver Suffocates Clearing Chip Jam In Trailer
- It appears that when the driver stepped on to the load, a void within the chip pile caused the pile to give way. (5/1/2011)
Safety Alert: Chain Saw Bar Sprocket Projected Into Cutter’s Face Screen
- As a timber cutter was limbing a tree, he suddenly felt the chain seize up and stop cutting. At the same time, he saw an object fly up toward his face, hitting his face screen. (4/1/2011)
Safety Alert: Load Binder Handle Strikes Truck Driver''s Forehead
- Load Binder Handle Strikes Truck Driver''s Forehead (3/1/2011)
Safety Alert: Observers of Felling Operation Have Close Call - Never assume you are in a safe position when close to an active felling operation. Always stay at least two tree-lengths (“twice tree height”) away from a timber cutter. (10/1/2010)
Safety Alert: Failure To Lockout Costs
Employee His Hand and Foot
- A foreman was in a hurry and was trying to perform a job that needed two additional people. The machine was turned off, but there was residual pressure left in the system since the lockout procedures had not been completed. (9/1/2010)
Safety Alert: Feller-Buncher Rollover Injures Operator
- A rubber-tired feller-buncher was on terrain too steep for the machine to operate safely, and the machine tipped over sideways and then rolled side-over-side four times down the slope. (8/2/2010)
Safety Alert: Saw Chaps Save Forester from Serious Injury - A forester's chainsaw cuts through all the layers of his chaps and even scratches his pants slightly, but the saw stops short of cutting his leg. (7/1/2010)
Safety Alert: Blown Hose Drenches Worker With Hydraulic Fluid - A large stream of hot hydraulic fluid shot up from between a harvester hose clamps and flipped the operator backwards off the machine and drenched him (including his eyes and mouth). (6/1/2010)
Safety Alert: Pressure Washer Injures Worker’s Foot - A force of water from a pressure washer’s wand cut through a logging crew member''s leather boot just above the area where the steel-toe protection started. (4/1/2010)
Safety Alert: Forester Escapes Injury From Flying Wrench - A truck kicked up a large, open-ended wrench that probably had fallen from a contractor’s work truck. The wrench impacted the front windshield on the driver’s side of forster traveling on the road. (3/1/2010)
Unloading Incident Damages Truck - Unloading Incident Damages Truck (2/1/2010)
Safety Alert: Timber Cutter Hit By Falling Snag - Timber Cutter Hit By Falling Snag (1/1/2010)
Safety Alert: Tire Rupture Knocks Truck Driver Down
- Tire blows driver to ground. (12/1/2009)
Safety Alert: Skidder Backs Over Sawyer - Fatal accident in which the rear tire of a skidder backs over a sawyer, and he died at the job site. (11/1/2009)
Safety Alert: Logger Lacerates Finger on Slasher Saw - Safety Alert – Safety includes being alert to prevent everything from major accidents to minor situations (10/1/2009)
Safety Alert: Ignoring “Twice Tree Height” Rule Leads To Fatality - A tree with a pinched saw suddenly broke loose, fell, and landed on top of a logging owner/operator, pinning him to the ground. (9/1/2009)
Safety Alert: Logger Struck, Killed While Walking Under Elevated Tree
- In the early afternoon of a winter morning in the Appalachians, a timber cutter was walking uphill near some trees that he had felled. (8/1/2009)
Safety Alert: Skidded Tree Top Strikes
Timber Cutter on Hardhat - An untrimmed limb shifted and moved rapidly toward a timber cutter, who was refueling his chainsaw slightly uphill from a skid road. The upper part of the untrimmed limb struck the timber cutter in the back of the hardhat with a glancing blow.
(7/1/2009)
Safety Alert: Skidder Blade Hits Stump;
Driver Killed in Rollover - A skidder machine rolls downhill across another skid trail. It appears the skidder rolled over four to five times before coming to a stop. (6/1/2009)
Safety Alert: Deckhand Hurt When He Bucks Log Held by Loader - After trees were felled in the woods, a deckhand bucked them near a track loader. When the he cut the end of the log, it fell to the ground and struck him in the left lower leg. (5/1/2009)
Safety Alert: Tree Enters Skidder with No Door, Injures Operator
- Never operate a skidder if a door or any ROPS/FOPS (rolling over protection structures/falling objection protection structures) protection has been removed or disabled. (4/1/2009)
Safety Alert: Limb Under Pressure Pushes Snag onto Cutter - On a sunny, dry spring afternoon in the Appalachians, a timber cutter was felling trees with a chain saw in a clear-cut harvest. (2/1/2009)
Safety Alert: Loader Touches Power Line; Worker Is Killed - On a summer day in the Southeast, a skidder operator pulled a knuckleboom loader out of the woods with the skidder in preparation for moving the next day (1/1/2009)
Safety Alert -- Cutter Grabs Tree Near Power Line, Topples Pole Background
- When a machine operator identifies a hazard, it is best to remove the hazard as soon as possible. If it is not feasible to remove it immediately, mark the hazard with flagging to identify it clearly. (12/1/2008)
Safety Alert: Harvester Boom Strikes Overpass During Transit - Accessory equipment, such as hydraulic booms and blades, must be completely lowered and secured to a lowboy. (11/1/2008)
Safety Alert: Skidder on Highway in Near-Miss with Car
- On a clear, spring morning in the Southeast, a logging crew member was moving a small flatbed trailer across a public highway from one harvest block to another. (8/1/2008)
Safety Alert: Skidder Strikes, Kills Logging Supervisor - Anyone working on an active logging job must communicate with everyone that they are on foot in the woods. Consider carrying hand-held radios on the same frequency used in the logging equipment. (6/1/2008)
Logs Spill from Truck At Unbinding Station - Safety Alert (1/1/2008)
Loader Boom Descends, Hits Crewman During Refueling - Safety Alert (12/1/2007)
Lodged Trees, Broken Limb Lead to Fatality - Safety Alert (11/1/2007)
Drying Pallets and Keeping Them Dry Help Prevent Mold from Occurring - Fan Sheds, Chemical Dip Treatments Effective Combination for Controlling Mold (9/1/2007)
Dead Tree Top Breaks, Hits Logger While Felling - Safety Alert (8/1/2007)
Ash Tree Under Tension ‘Explodes,’ Injuring Cutter - Safety Alert (7/1/2007)
Driver Falls, Injured Improperly Binding Slasher - Safety Alert (6/1/2007)
Sawyer Struck, Killed While Working Near ‘Set Back’ Tree - Safety Alert (5/1/2007)
Welded Tire Rim Blows, Kills Logger While Inflating - Safety Alert (3/1/2007)
Felling with Match Cut Contributes to Fatal Mishap - Safety Alert (2/1/2007)
Close Call with Loaded Pulpwood Truck - Safety Alert (12/1/2006)
Hard Hat Protects Logger from Falling Limb - Safety Alert (11/1/2006)
Log Truck Backs into Loader Operator - Safety Alert (10/1/2006)
Equipment Loading Accident Kills Truck Driver - Safety Alert (9/1/2006)
Turning Sawhead Disk Cuts Operator’s Leg - Safety Alert (8/1/2006)
Logger Not Wearing High Visibility Clothes Is Struck - Safety Alert (7/1/2006)
Trade Groups Lead Way for Safe Logging - Logger Associations in Oregon, Montana, Louisiana Leading Successful Safety Efforts (6/1/2006)
Summer Worker Tangles with Bees - Safety Alert (6/1/2006)
Feller-Buncher Backs into Pick-Up Truck - Safety Alert (5/1/2006)
Warming Fire Burns Logging Worker - Safety Alert (4/1/2006)
Deck Hand Injured Near Log Pile - Safety Alert (3/1/2006)
Limb Injures Chain Saw Operator While Delimbing - Safety Alert (2/1/2006)
Worker Injured Near Log Pile - Safety Alert (1/1/2006)
New Logging Safety Web Site Added - New Logging Safety Web Site Added (7/1/2005)
Cutter Struck, Killed When Vines Pull Dead Limb - Cutter Struck, Killed When Vines Pull Dead Limb (7/1/2005)
Doug Duncan Raises the Profile for Safety - The Forest Resources Association recognizes North Carolina Forestry Association staffer for leading the effort to increase logging safety awareness and training. (12/1/2003)
Logging Deaths Dip; Falling Objects Leading Fatality Cause - According to government stats, logging-related deaths are dropping as industry become safety focused. (5/2/2002)
West Virginia Safety Initiative Is Recognized; - Forest Resources Association Bestows Safety Award on Jim Scronce for His Efforts to Improve Logger Safety (12/3/2001)
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