Safety Alert: Operator Dodges Stem Crashing Through Window
Background: A logging crew was working on a hurricane salvage tract in the Southeast. The harvest site presented hazards common with this type of operation: numerous broken trees with downed stems that were blown over or laying on the ground – many of which were still...
Safety Alert: Worker Killed by Rotating Disc Cutter on Excavator
Background On a winter day in the Pacific Northwest, an equipment operator trimming brush alongside a logging road was killed after he was apparently pulled into a rotating disc used to cut brush. He was using an excavator with a disc cutting attachment on the boom....
Safety Alert: Feller-Buncher Door Slams Shut on Finger
Background On an overcast winter day in the south-central region, a feller-buncher operator noticed a hydraulic leak while operating the machine. Personal Characteristics The worker had been operating the machine for his employer for about two years, but he had about...
Falling Tree Injures Two Loggers
Background On a partly cloudy fall morning in the south-central U.S., two workers were topping trees on a logging job and had just moved to a new section of the tract. They positioned themselves on the edge of the woods, right off the logging road, to take a short...