Atlantic Network for Forestry Health, Safety, and Ergonomics

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Forestry Safety Society of Nova Scotia

• Chopper slips on wood injuring tailbone
• Contractor hit by harvestor step
• Debris ignites in forwarder pan
• Half-track clamp snapped off
• Half-ton trucks collide on logging roads
• Hand caught in forwarder engine pan
• Harvesting contractor strains back reaching
• Loading truck while on slope - potential hazards
• Logging truck overturns - driver injured
• Logging truck and half-ton truck collide head-on
• Machine operator trips on tree stump
• Processor rolled over on its side
• Processor burns - flammable debris in engine cab
• Tractor trailer loses traction - jacknives
• Truck tangled in power lines - loses control
• Welder injured - not wearing protective clothing

WHSCC - NB

• Poor visibility in forestry operations poses great risks
• Overhead powerlines pose threat to workers and equipment
• Lockout - Your life and limbs depend on it
• Employees working from heights need fall protection
• Teamwork and communication are vital in woodlands operations
• Hook smashes through window, strikes worker
• New Brunswick worker killed in cable pulling operation
• New Brunswick worker buried alive
• Skidder accident injure and kill woodworkers
• Danger - Carbon Monoxide
• Internal injuries from ejected lumber lead to fatality
• Powered mobile equipment kills
• Log crashes through rear window of forwarder
• Crushed Under a Stack of Wooden Pallets
• Operator Dies After Being Pinned Under a Dozer
• Worker Dies…Fire Extinguisher Not Readily Available
• Limbing, Bucking and Kickbacks
• Worker Injured When By-Passing Safety Devices
• Open flame and gasoline: An explosive combination
• Step in the right direction
• Worker Crushed By Boom of Pulp Log Loader
• Worker dies when caught in a lathe
• Partially Cut Trees Left Standing: a real danger
• Worker Killed When Ladder Touches Power Line
• Chainsaw Accident Kills Woodsworker

WCB - PEI

• Forestry spinal cord injury
• Powered mobile equipment

WCB - NS/Government of Nova Scotia: Employment & Workplaces

• Elevating devices contaction hazard
• Lunenburg winch systems braking
• West nile virus
• Lyme disease - deer ticks
• Ground fault circuit interrupters
• Truck wheel loss
• Heat stress
• MSA Surety Sure-Stop Shock Absorbers
• Hook safety latches
• Shields and safeguards
• Wood chippers
• Working near powerlines

NL Government Services - OHS

• CSA Fall protection
• Workers suffer carbon monoxide poisoning from forklift emissions
• Filling portable gas cans in pickup trucks and cars
• Loading and unloading lumber from flatbeds
• Unsecure loads on tractor trailer
• Removing vehicle tow line
• Trenching

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