FRA Logger Safety Resources
FRA Publications and Videos
- The Logger’s Guide to the OSHA Logging Safety Standards (21-A-01)
- Garage Site Safety Manual (04-A-3)
- Skidder Safety and Efficiency (08-A-4)
- TEAM Fire Safety (12-A-2)
- FRA’s OSHA Logging Safety Training Video
- Load Securement for Logs (08-A-5)
Safety Alerts
- Logger Seriously Injured by Falling Chipper Knives
- Logger Struck by Jackstand Crank
- Logger Seriously Burned by Warming Fire
- Landowners Safety Rules Around a Logging Operation
- Logger Injured During Processor Head Repair
- Logger Hit by Deadwood Lives
- Logger Killed Working Under Setback Tree
- Ether Explosion Severely Burns Logger
- Barber-Chair Tree Kills Logger
- Logger Injures Hand on Lowboy
- Logger Cuts Hand On Chipper Counter-Knife
- Log Truck Driver Dies When Struck by Logs Being Loaded on Trailer
- Chainsaw Injury – Damaged Chaps
- Chaser Crushed Between Two Logs
- Dead Trees are Manual Felling Hazards
- Vines Pulls Dead Tree Onto Timber Cutter
- Walking Underneath Danger Tree Proves Fatal
- Chain Saw Kickback to the Face
- Skidder Operator Injures Ankle From Improper Dismount
- Tracked Feller-Buncher Slides Downhill, Overturns
- Unsafe Topping and Bucking of a Tree Under Tension
- Broken, Hung Tree Falls on Timber Cutter
- Fatality from Failure to Observe Safe Work Zone
- Forwarder With Brake Problems Overturns
- Near Fatal Electrocution Involving Knuckleboom Loader
- Operator Fractures Fingers Exiting Harvester
- Ignoring “Twice Tree Height” Rule Leads to Fatality
- Mechanical Harvester Tangles With Power Line
- Sawyer Working Too Closely to “Set-Back” Tree
- Skidder’s Drag Causes Injury
- Chain Saw Operator Cuts Leg While Delimbing
- Worker Injured Near Log Pile
Technical Release 25-TR-29 Logging is Getting Safer, But There’s Always Room for Improvement