Safety Alert: Choker Setter Struck in Head by Swinging Log
Background
On a fall day in the Pacific Northwest, a cable yarding crew was working on a new thinning unit. The crew consisted of the...
Safety Alert
Background
On a fall morning in the southeastern U.S., a loader operator finished loading wood onto a tractor-trailer and signaled the truck driver to pull...
Safety Alert
Unsafe Procedures Followed for Loading Skidder
Background
On a Friday evening in the Appalachians, a logging business owner and a crew member were loading a cable...
Safety Alert: Deck Hand Killed While Assisting Truck Driver
Background:
On a clear, dry winter day in the southeast, a deck hand went to assist a truck driver who was spotting loaded trailers for...
Safety Alert: Feller-Buncher Operator Killed
Background
On a sunny spring afternoon in the Southern U.S., a water hole, just below a pond dam, had to be crossed to access the...
Logger Seriously Burned by Warming Fire
Background
On a late fall day in the Pacific Northwest, a logging crew was standing by a warming fire during their lunch break.
Personal Characteristics
It is...
Safety Alert: Bar Saw on Firewood Processor Cuts Owner
Background
During the summer in the Lake States Region, the owner of a firewood processor nearly severed part of his arm when a chainsaw head...
Safety Alert: Lowboy Operator’s Fingers Amputated
BACKGROUND
On a spring day in the Pacific Northwest, a lowboy operator was coupling the lowboy gooseneck to a lowbed trailer deck after loading and...
Safety Alert: Truck Tire Explodes During Inflation
Background:
On a warm, sunny, winter day in the Appalachians, a log truck was in line to be unloaded at a forest product mill’s woodyard.
Personal...
Safety Alert: Minimizing Vandalism and Responding to Protests
Background
During the winter logging season in the Lake States Region, logging equipment was vandalized by protesters of a nearby project. The vandalism resulted in...