Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products
Industry Summary
With employment in this industry reaching new highs, the 299 businesses operating in the Forest Nurseries and Gathering of Forest Products industry are sure to make protecting the estimated total of 2,391 employees reported in 2015 a top priority. With OSHA reported accident rates of less than that of the the Forestry and Logging Industry as a whole, things have been relatively safe over the past five years.
OSHA investigators arrived in GILMER, TE on Thursday, July 28th 2016 and began an accident investigation at Upsher Forest Products, LLC. A had been injured when the pedestrian struck by vehicle in nonroadway area, unspecified
OSHA IDSevere Injury Report
Accident Date2016-07-28
Accident DegreeInjury
NarrativeAn employee was struck on the right ankle and toes by a passing forklift and hospitalized.
The accident investigation below was opened on Wednesday, August 8th 2012 by OSHA representitives in Santa Rosa, CA which had occured previously at United Bark Products Llc. A employee working as a Laborer was injured on the job when the employee geted hand caught in belt conveyor
OSHA ID170784391
Accident Date2012-08-03
Accident DegreeHospitalized injury
NarrativeOn August 3, 2012, employees of United Bark Products LLC where working on a belt conveyor, pulling off sticks, when Employee #1 caught his hand in the belt which pulled his hand under the head pulley. The belt conveyor head was not guarded, which caused his hand to be caught in the nip point between the conveyor and the head pulley. Employee #1 was taken to the hospital for his injuries which consisted of right hand nerve damage and dead tissue. Employee #1 was hospitalized for four days, then again for fifteen days, then an additional two days.
On Thursday, August 9th 2012 OSHA reps took a report of a serious accident in Weed, CA after learning of an incident at Roseburg Forest Products which had occured on Friday, July 27th 2012. A Helper had been injured when the employee was struck in face and sustained fractured jaw
OSHA ID170627251
Accident Date2012-07-27
Accident DegreeHospitalized injury
NarrativeOn July 28, 2012, an employee was working for a forest products firm. He was using a bar to take out a pin out of a Wagner loader. The bar came back and hit the employee in the face. He sustained a fractured jaw. He was taken to the hospital, and he was hospitalized for five days.
OSHA Inspection Activity
Accident Rate
5 Year Average
6.44
Last 12 Months
0
Reporting Statistics
Inspection Records: 62
Violation Records:
Accident Records: 6