OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14477608
GREAT NORTHERN PAPER A COMPANY OF GREAT NORTHERN N
MILLINOCHET, ME—
Event description
Employee bleeds to death from chain saw laceration
Investigation abstract
Employee #1 was felling a 17 in. diameter spruce tree with a chain saw. He made an undercut and then began the felling cut 1 to 2 in. below the undercut. The tr ee fell where intended, but the chain saw struck his upper left leg near the gro in. He moved 7 ft away from the tree, dropped a work glove, moved 23 ft, and fel l to the ground. A few minutes later, the skidder operator returned from the yar d and found Employee #1, who had bled to death.
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 46 M
- Nature of injury
- 7
- Part of body
- 23
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 23
- Occupation code
- 999
- Human factor
- 1
- Environmental factor
- 18
- Task assigned
- 1
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