OSHA Accident Investigation · Summary #732719

CLIFT JONES

HEMINGWAY, SC— 1985-03-07T00:00:00

Event: HEAD, TREE FELLING, TREE, LOADER, SKIDDER, STRUCK BY, FALLING OBJECT, LOGGING
NAICS: 000000
Inspection type: Accident-driven
Activity number: #15342827
Employer profile: CLIFT JONES
Summary number: 732719
Report ID: 454510

Event description

STRUCK BY FALLING TREE

Investigation abstract

EMPLOYEE #1 WAS USING A SKIDDER, TRYING TO PUSH A PARTIALLY CUT TREE OVER. THE T REE TWISTED AND FELL BACK ONTO A NEARBY LOADER. THE LOADER OPERATOR WAS STRUCK I N THE HEAD AND KILLED BY THE FALLING TREE. THE LOADER WAS MADE BY THE TREE FARME R COMPANY. THE TREE WAS AN 80 FOOT HIGH GUM TREE. THE LOADER WAS LOCATED ONLY 72 FEET AWAY FROM THE BASE OF THE FALLING TREE.

Victim

#1 Fatality Age 38 M

Nature of injury
12

Part of body
3

Event type
1

Source
34

Occupation code
496

Human factor
1

Environmental factor
6

Task assigned
1

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.