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Health and Safety => Health and Safety => Topic started by: Kevin on September 19, 2010, 09:37:00 PM
Back in 2008 South Coast Standing Stem logging from the show heli loggers lost a faller while working a block in BC.
A faller was standing on the narrow ledge of a cliff to buck a windfall tree. The windfall's rootwad was lying on the perimeter of the ledge and was only loosely attached to the ground. Most of the windfall's 58-foot trunk was suspended between two standing trees below the ledge. As the faller completed the bucking cuts, the rootwad rolled downhill off the ledge, causing the lower part of the trunk to pivot on one of the standing trees. Then as the suspended trunk swung uphill, its bucked end pinned the faller against the cliff. He sustained fatal injuries.
http://www2.worksafebc.com/PDFs/investigations/IIR2008161750006.pdf