Accidents Prompt Safety Alert

By 250 News

    The BC Forest Safety Council  has issued  an alert following  several serious accidents in the industry in the first couple weeks  of March.

Of the seven  serious accidents, 3 took place in the central interior and  5 of the seven involved  workers being caught in or  between  equipment or object:

Here are the details:

March 9th: Central Interior:  A young worker was operating a MRT Multiple Trimsaw, when he reached into the equipment to unjam a board while the infeed lug transfer chains were still moving. The worker’s right hand got caught on a lug on a moving transfer chain and amputated above the wrist when it was pulled through a rotating trimsaw. 

March 5th: Central Interior:  A sawmill worker went to the infeed area of the #2 Board Edger to reposition a board that would not feed into the edger. When the worker grabbed and repositioned the board, this cleared and activated a photo-eye control that caused an infeed pressroll to actuate and lift upward. The worker was injured, when the arm got caught between this pressroll and the metal framework at the infeed area of the edger. 

March 6th: Central Interior: When a worker attempted to turn a 2"x10"x20’ board on the trim saw transfer deck the glove on his left hand was caught under the board and pulled into a chain and sprocket drive.

March 5th:  North Vancouver Island:  worker contacted the running head saw of a shingle machine with left hand resulting in injuries to the hand

March 7th: North Vancouver Island: motor vehicle accident, loaded logging truck contacted the back fender of an industrial ambulance while attempting to pass on the highway, the logging truck and the ambulance both ended up in the ditch.

March 2nd: Southeastern B.C.: employee entered a barricaded pit  at the ’Tail Drum Waste Conveyor’ to dislodge a wooden block and reached in, catching his hand in the mechanism, which pulled his arm in and around the conveyor drum. 

March 6th:Southeastern B.C.:  A worker was using a pike pole to clear wood hung up across a waste conveyor, when the worker’s glove caught on a drive chain pulling the worker’s hand into a sprocket. 

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