More Details on Forestry Fatalities

By 250 News

The Forest Safety Council has issued some more information on the two fatalities of 2007.

In a bulletin issued this afternoon,  the Safety Council  says the first death  happened on Saturday in the Clearwater area.

"The owner of a small logging company, who normally operated  a skidder, was falling birch trees. After the falling cuts were made in a tree, the tree remained standing and wedging tools were not available. The owner then proceeded to buck trees within 1 tree length of the standing cut up tree. The standing  cut up tree fell and struck the owner. The owner was not a certified faller."

The bulletin also notes two serious falling incidents  that happenend earlier in the month. On the 16th, a faller was crushed by a hemlock  and on the 14th , a certified manual faller was hit on the leg  by a slab  that broke loose  and fell from the danger tree he was working on.

The other fatality we now know happened near  Dawson Creek.  A man in his 40's who was working as a contractor for Louisiana Pacific Dawson Creek, was run over by a skidder.

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