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...
Safety Alert: Old, Worn Chaps Linked To Cut Suffered by Logger
Background
A foreman was injured while cutting a 4-inch western hemlock as he was working in the Pacific Northwest on a September day.
Personal Characteristics
The foreman...
Safety Alert Timber Cutter Fails to Account for Dead Snag
Personal Characteristics
The cutter was in his thirties, was considered very experienced, and was wearing full personal protective equipment.
Unsafe Act and Condition
The logging operation failed...
Safety Alert – Train Crossing Collision
Background
On a January day in the Lake States Region, a driver of a fully loaded truck hauling pulpwood failed to stop and entered an...
Safety Alert: Knives Causes Equipment Damage
Background:
On a fair, summer day in the Appalachians, a logging crew started up their in-woods chipper on a new harvest site.
Personal Characteristics
Two crew members...
Hooktender Struck by Rolling Rock
Background:
On a March day in the Pacific Northwest, a hooktender was badly injured when he was struck by a rolling rock that was dislodged...
Safety Alert:
Background:
On a September day in the Pacific Northwest, a 31-year-old chaser died after he was crushed between two logs while working on the landing...
Safety Alert
Background:
On an early winter evening in the Lake States, a log truck had finished delivering pulpwood to a paper mill. The driver was 20...