BACKGROUND:
A hunter driving a pickup truck on industrial forestland in the Northeast on a Friday afternoon in early winter got off the woods road, and his truck became stuck in mud. Unable to extricate the truck on his own, the driver left the vehicle over the weekend, returning on Monday to remove it with the help of the operator of a hydraulic excavator from a nearby logging road construction operation. Cold temperatures and heavy snow over the weekend froze the mud around the truck’s wheels.
BACKGROUND: On a fall day in the Eastern U.S., a mobile crane was traveling through a mill’s woodyard.
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The mobile crane operator was in his mid 40s and had worked in mill maintenance for about ten years.
SAFETY ALERT 12-S-4
BACKGROUND:
The owner-operator of a tractor-trailer log truck in the Northeast was having his truck loaded with tree-length wood. It was a fall day, clear and cool. Weather was not a factor.
SAFETY ALERT 12-S-5
BACKGROUND: On a fall day in the South, a logging crew foreman was cleaning tools.
PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS: The 19-year-old crew foreman had been employed in logging for approximately one year.
Safety Alert 11-S-15
On a late summer afternoon in the South, a forester was checking harvest contract compliance at a logging operation. Weather conditions were good.