Safety Alert: Center Mount Boom Makes Contact With Power Line After Being Left Up
Background:
On a winter afternoon day in the Lake States, a logging business owner was training a new employee. The business owner and employee scaled-in...
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INCIDENT:
In May 2018, the operator of a steep slope machine on a two-line tethered logging system had a near-miss when one of the cables...
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Background:
On an early morning winter day in the Lake States Region, a driver was hauling sawmill chips to a paper mill. The driver was...
Safety Alert: Truck Rolls Downhill Into Other Truck
BACKGROUND:
On a cold winter morning in the southern U.S., two loaded log trucks were parked on a woods road while the drivers secured their...
Safety Alert: Unsecured Pulpwood Log Damages Truck
BACKGROUND:
On a clear, summer day in the Appalachians, a logging employee was driving (“spotting”) a load of logs from the log deck to a...
Safety Alert: Logger Hit by Deadwood Lives
BACKGROUND:
A logging company in the Lake States Region was harvesting timber in the fall of the year. The leaves had changed color and...
Safety Alert: Heat Exhaustion on a Hot Summer Afternoon
Background:
On a summer afternoon in the southern U.S., a forest technician had finished painting a streamside management zone line and walked back to...
Logger Struck and Killed by Log Truck
BACKGROUND:
On a late fall morning in the Northeast, a flatbed truck delivering logging equipment to a site had stopped at the beginning of...
Safety Alert: Logging Equipment No Match for Locomotive
BACKGROUND:
It was mid-morning on a clear, cold December day in the Lake States Region. Markets for forest products were strong, and loggers were busy...
Safety Alert: Base Machine Pulled Over by Steep Slope
INCIDENT:
In January of 2018, an operator had a near miss when he pulled over a base machine tethered to a steep slope machine...