OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #14557615
WHITE SANDS FOREST PRODUCTS
CLOUDCROFT, NM—
Event description
Employee killed when struck by log being skidded uphill
Investigation abstract
A logging crew of four employees was skidding logs up a hill with a slope of app show up. The second choker setter found Employee #1 lying on the ground, bleedi ng from his head. He was killed. Evidence at the scene indicated that Employee # 1 had not gotten clear when signaled to do so, and that a log had caught on its own stump, raised up, swung over, and struck him on the left side. roximately 45 percent. They were using a Link Belt #98 crane as a cable yarder, with a skyline to lift the logs and a mainline to pull the logs uphill. Employee #1 was setting chokers on one side of the 15 ft wide cleared corridor, and a co worker was setting chokers on the other side. A radio bug was used to signal the crane operator. Employee #1 signaled to have his logs skidded up the corridor. The crane operator sent down a message for him to clear the area for the lift. W hen the lift was complete, the crane operator signaled Employee #1 but received no answer. The message was sent two more times but Employee #1 did not signal or
Victim
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#1 Fatality Age 23 M
- Nature of injury
- 3
- Part of body
- 19
- Event type
- 1
- Source
- 39
- Occupation code
- 496
- Human factor
- 10
- Environmental factor
- 5
- Task assigned
- 1
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