Safety Alert: Driver Injured in Load Trimming Mishap
Background
On a clear, cool, winter day in the South, a log truck driver was waiting for his truck to be loaded with pine pulpwood....
Safety Alert
Background
On a winter day in the Pacific Northwest, a cable yarder operator was bringing in turns of logs to the landing. The rigging crew...
Safety Alert: Bulldozer Overturns and Kills Operator
BACKGROUND:
A bulldozer operator was working alone clearing a logging road on an early Spring morning in the Appalachians. The ground was still frozen.
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS:
The...
Safety Alert: Feller-Buncher Backs into Pick-Up Truck
Safety Alert
BACKGROUND
On a spring morning in the Southeast, a wood buyer followed a logger down a woods road to where a crew was cutting...
Safety Alert
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...
Safety Alert: Welded Tire Rim Blows, Kills Logger While Inflating
Safety Alert
BACKGROUND
On a winter afternoon in the Appalachians, a father and son were replacing a skidder tire in their logging business shop.
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS
Both father...
Safety Alert: Skidder Operator Killed in Steep-Slope Rollover
Background:
On a clear, dry, fall afternoon in the Appalachians, a skidder operator was skidding and winching a load uphill. The terrain was very steep...
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...
Sun Glare Causes Near Miss
Background
It was a sunny day in January in the Appalachians. The temperature was in the 40 with moderately dry ground conditions. A forester was...
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...