Safety Incidents OSHA Severe Injury Reports · 2015–2025
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OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14393292

WILLOW RIDGE INC

Event
HEAD, WORK RULES, EQUIPMENT OPERATOR, ROPS, CONSTRUCTION, LODGED TREE, CRUSHED, SEAT BELT, TRACTOR, OVERTURN
NAICS
000000
Inspection type
Accident-driven
Activity number
#100258151
Employer profile
WILLOW RIDGE INC
Summary number
14393292
Report ID
625700

Event description

Employee killed when thrown from tractor

Investigation abstract

Employee #1 was using a Long 360 industrial tractor without rollover protection to remove a tree that had become lodged in another tree. When he lifted the base of the lodged tree, it rolled into the bucket of the tractor, flipping the trac tor over on its side. Employee #1 was thrown to the ground and his head crushed under the tractor's tire(s). He was killed.

Victim

  1. #1 Fatality Age 45 M

    Nature of injury
    6
    Part of body
    13
    Event type
    2
    Source
    30
    Occupation code
    999
    Human factor
    6
    Environmental factor
    8
    Task assigned
    1

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