OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14340020
KELLY YOW SAWMILL
ROBBINS, NC—
Event description
STRUCK BY FALLING TREE; SUBSEQUENTLY SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK
Investigation abstract
ON MAY 31, 1985, EMPLOYEE #1 AND HIS SON WERE CUTTING LOGS. AT APPROXIMATELY 10: 1 MIGHT BE HAVING HEART PROBLEMS, MADE A STRETCHER AND TRANSPORTED HIM TO A DOCT OR IN ROBBINS, NORTH CAROLINA. THE EMPLOYEE STILL INSISTED THAT HE WAS NOT ILL A ND REFUSED TO ENTER THE DOCTOR'S OFFICE. THE DOCTOR WAS SUMMONED TO THE TRUCK. T HE DOCTOR, FEARING THAT EMPLOYEE #1 WAS HAVING A HEART ATTACK, HAD THE EMPLOYER CARRY THE EMPLOYEE INTO HIS OFFICE. WHEN HE FINALLY WAS TAKEN INTO THE OFFICE AN D PLACED ON A TABLE, HE HAD NO HEARTBEAT. THE DOCTOR MANAGED TO REVIVE HIM AND S END FOR AN AMBULANCE TO TRANSPORT THE EMPLOYEE TO A HOSPITAL IN CARTHAGE. HOWEVE R, BEFORE THE EMPLOYEE COULD BE MOVED HIS HEART STOPPED AGAIN. THIS TIME THE DOC TOR WAS NOT ABLE TO REVIVE HIM. 15, A TREE THAT THEY HAD CUT REBOUNDED AND STRUCK EMPLOYEE #1 A GLANCING BLOW ON THE SHOULDER. THE EMPLOYER ARRIVED ON THE SCENE ABOUT A MINUTE LATER AND FOUND EMPLOYEE #1 SITTING ON THE GROUND NEXT TO THE FELLED TREE. THE EMPLOYER ASKED EM PLOYEE #1 IF HE COULD MOVE HIS ARM AND SHOULDER. HE THEN CUT THE EMPLOYEE'S SHIR T OFF TO LOOK FOR SIGNS OF INJURY. HE COULD FIND NONE. SINCE HE FELT HE HAD SUST AINED NO SERIOUS DAMAGE, EMPLOYEE #1 ASKED TO BE ALLOWED TO GO HOME, GET SOME RE ST, THEN RETURN TO WORK. THE EMPLOYER URGED EMPLOYEE #1 TO GO TO THE DOCTOR. EMP LOYEE #1 BEGAN TO FEEL FAINT AND NAUSEOUS. HIS EMPLOYER, FEELING THAT EMPLOYEE #
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 64 M
- Nature of injury
- 21
- Part of body
- 5
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 43
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 7
- Environmental factor
- 6
- Task assigned
- 1
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