OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #221607112

STEVE BOTT LOGGING LLC

LONG EDDY, NY— 2023-10-10T00:00:00

Event: Caught Between, Chest, Crushed, Falling Object, Fracture, Head, Logging, Tree, Tree Felling
NAICS: 113310
Inspection type: Federal Agency
Activity number: #347027179
Employer profile: STEVE BOTT LOGGING LLC
Summary number: 221607112
Report ID: 0215800

Event description

Employee dies of severe crushing injuries while felling tree

Investigation abstract

At 2:30 p.m. on October 10, 2023, an employee working as a lumber jack for a logging company was manually felling trees. One of the trees he was felling struck the employee crushing him between the falling tree and one laying on the ground. The employee sustained severe head and chest injuries and was killed.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 40 M

Event type
1

Occupation code
496

Codes shown verbatim from OSHA's accident-investigation database. A human-readable decoder is coming in a future release once the accident_lookup2 dictionary is loaded.