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A busy season on logging roads (260kb)
ATV operator suffers fatal head injury PDF (300kb)
Chainsaw operator ruptures ear drum while wearing ear plug PDF (300kb)
Chainsaw operator's vein ruptured by flying fragment (311kb)
Chipper knives broken by chain, ejected through sliver chute (250kb)
Cutter suffers multiple injuries from sudden fall of hung-up tree (290kb)
Cut-to-length processor operator crushed to death by feed rollers (224kb)
Driver falls from edge of truck deck, fracturing his leg and ankle PDF (2mb)
Drivers of sand truck killed in encounters with log trucks PDF (185kb)
Feller buncher operator injured escaping rollover from cab (379kb)
Grader tire chain link snaps free, shatters cab window (176kb)
Harness not tied off, trucker fractures back in fall from chip van (281kb)
Improper dismount from log loader results in sprained ankle (255kb)
Loader operator pinned between boom cylinder and cab (261kb)
Log loader frame collapses after mounting pedestal fails (263kb)
Mechanic’s hand injured by injection of hydraulic fluid (398kb)
Poorly maintained turntable bearings may break free (259kb)
Prop rod not used, feller buncher’s gull wing almost collapses (209kb)
Saw kicks during limbing, causing severe foot injury (262kb)
Skidder door swings open, strikes wheel and is pushed into cab (222kb)
Skidder operator crushed by fuel truck while refuelling his skidder (188kb)
Spring pole strikes, cutter suffers neck and jaw lacerations (193kb)
Two recent incidents illustrate the dangers of exploding tires (368kb)
Worker crushed to between barrel and structure of load aligner (291kb)
Worker dies of burns in propane explosion (268kb)
Worker found unconscious from carbon monoxide poisoning (198kb)
Worker's leg fractured in two places when truck slips off floor jack (187kb)
Worker loses leg below knee to rotating blade of feller buncher (142kb)
Worker returning from lunch struck by cut tree left standing (269kb)
Worker suffers serious burns from propane explosion PDF (2mb)
1992 incident highlights hazards of logging roads in summer (287kb)

 

 

 

 

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