Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for Oregon: Operator Killed When Bulldozer Slides Off Logging Road
Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for Oregon: Operator Killed When Bulldozer Slides Off Logging Road
On September 6, 2003, a 75-year-old logger, working as a bulldozer operator, was killed when the D6H Caterpillar crawler tractor he was operating tumbled off a steep skid road into a ravine. The operator was climbing a 20-25 degree slope while reopening an old skid road. The bulldozer slid off of the road against a tree while on a hard rock face covered by a 4-inch surface of scrabble rock. The operator apparently regained control, and may have been trying to get the bulldozer back up on the road when it slipped off the 60-70 degree sidehill and tumbled about 150 ft to a logging road, where the operator was ejected. The bulldozer bounced another 450 ft into a ravine. The event was not witnessed. Fatal injuries probably occurred when the victim was thrown around in the cab, before being ejected.
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Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) Report for Oregon: Operator Killed When Bulldozer Slides Off Logging Road
2006
10 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
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Public Health & Industrial Medicine , Industrial Safety Engineering , Construction Materials, Components, & Equipment , Fatality investigation , Occupational health and safety , Investigations , Bulldozers , Fatalities , Crushing injuries , Heavy equipment , Oregon Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (OR-FACE)