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Empty tandem log truck left travelled portion of industrial forest road. Truck rolled over at least once, down the 70% embankment. |
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A loaded logging truck was attempting to enter onto the highway from a logging road when it was struck by a passenger vehicle. |
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Worker fell approximately 10 feet to grade, from trailer platform, while rolling tarps. |
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A loaded logging truck lost control of the trailer while negotiating a corner and struck the front of an empty logging truck waiting in a pullout. |
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A certified manual tree faller was falling a hemlock danger tree approximately 65 feet tall and 20 inches in diameter when it broke into 4pieces and 1 piece came back striking the worker on the head. |
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A loaded logging truck lost braking power while descending a steep grade and utilized a runaway lane that was immediately available to bring the truck to a stop. Once the truck was stopped, it did not not have enough braking power to hold the truck on the grade of the runaway lane. The truck began to roll backward down the grade, the driver jumped from the cab and the truck crashed. |
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Two loaded logging trucks collided head on. |
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A worker's left hand was pulled into a V-belt drive of a conveyor, severing the tip of the middle finger and crushing the tip of the ring finger. |
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The operator of a loaded logging truck was fatally injured when the truck went over the bank of a forestry road, crushing the cab as the load of logs shifted forward. |
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After stamping the load of logs on his truck, the driver was walking back to place the stamp hammer in the bucket when he slipped on the ice and fell, causing a fracture. |
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A log hauler left a forest service road and rolled approximately 15 meters down a 70-80% sloped embankment. |
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting
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The log transporter driver had positioned the truck's self loading boom and grapple on top of the trailer's load of logs for additional traction. The driver then drove under a 25kv power line, contacting a lower telephone line (i.e. at 19ft. above ground), which then caused an adjacent utility "pole" to beak off. The pole and energized 25kv line then fell on top of the loaded truck |
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting
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A supervisor was walking up a road towards an active grapple yarder when he was struck by a small log that was just released by the grapple. |
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Traveling to and from work
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Workers driving alone, in separate vehicles, in the opposite direction collided on Forest Service Road, resulting in serious injury to one of the workers. |
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting
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The main boom pin failed on a self loading log loader truck causing the boom to roll out of the boom saddle and striking the operator. The operator was found suspended up-side-down by his lower left leg that was pinned between the log loader boom and the operators platform. |
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A worker fell approximately 8 feet off a roll of material in a ship's hold. |
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Worker was cleaning a photo cell upstream of the circular saws on a 20" canter when the top arbor moved down crushing the workers arm. |
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Traveling to and from Work
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A crew transport vehicle was waiting in a vacant helicopter logging landing area waiting for an off highway low bed with a long line loader on board to pass. The outrigger on the log loader struck a tree that was 109 feet tall on the high side of the road causing the tree to whip. Approximately 12 feet of the top of the tree was thrown 80 feet through the air into the windshield of the parked crew transport vehicle coming to rest against the steering column. |
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A faller working for a contractor on a Heli-logging job sustained an injury and died on the site. |
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Single motor vehicle logging truck flipped over on the road due to icy road surface. |
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The planerman contacted the rotating bottom head of a moulder with his left hand, either while adjusting the machinery or while clearing material from the moulder resulting in an amputation. |
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A fire erupted in one of the electrical sub stations for the mill, called the PDC - Power Distribution Center. |
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting
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A worker was hit by a log coming off the front trailer while a log loader was unloading at the rear of the trailer. |
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While conducting falling operations a faller was struck by an 80ft. standing dead cedar tree which fell from approx. 62ft. above and to the side of the falling face (i.e. the fallers work area). |
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While off loading rough lumber from a trailer, the forklift operator inadvertenly contacted the trailer frame which caused several unbundled boards to fall to the ground and strike the truck drivers left foot/ankle. |
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Driver cut corner of haul road putting trailer off the road which flopped tractor over on its side. |
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Two heli-logging pilots died when their helicopter apparently broke up in mid-air and went down in a remote area southwest of Bella Coola. The incident will be investigated by Interfor and the federal Transportation Safety Board** |
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Yarding/ Mechanical Harvesting
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Hooktender walked into the landing, indicating he had a head injury. |
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Yarding/ Mechanical Harvesting
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A Madill 3800C log loader flopped over onto the trailer of a logging truck while the operator was attempting to load a 36 inch diameter by 66 foot long hemlock boom stick. |
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A worker's hand was pinched, when a running dangle head processor inadvertantly cycled during wiring repairs. |
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Traveling to and from work
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A pickup with 5 persons onboard drove off the road, slid down the embanment and rolled onto its roof. |
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A log truck driver jumped from a loaded logging truck after the service line to the trailer detached. The driver received minor injuries. The truck traveled 200 feet down a steep slope into the logging slash and will be written off. |
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A certified manual faller fell a 16 inch diameter by 110 feet tall hemlock tree. When the tree hit the ground it caused a piece of wood to be thrown 30 feet back towards the faller, hitting him on the head. The piece of wood that hit the faller was 6 inches in diameter and 5.6 feet long and was estimated to weigh 70 pounds. |
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A worker (planer feeder) was clearing wood chunks from outfeed rolls of a Yates planer when his right arm was caught between rolls and pulled in. Planer heads were not operational at the time. Rough 1x4 fir boards were being fed through for grading and Machine Stress Rating process. Rolls were not stopped or locked out. Space between top and bottom rolls was approx. 1". |
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A multi-vehicle accident occurred following a diesel fuel spill. The victim's logging truck jack-knifed on the highway and then was struck by a dump truck. |
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A logging truck driver was backing his truck up a sloped logging spur to the loading area when it went off the road way and rolled down an embankment approximately 73m. Driver was ejected from truck cab and found 21m further down the embankment |
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting
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A worker was hammering out a steel pin from a hydraulic cylinder when a piece of steel from the pin dislodged, striking and penetrating the worker's left eye. |
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A veneer clipper operator was attempting to remove some veneer that had gotten caught in the chain and sprocket for the veneer tray clutch system. The operator's baby finger got caught between the chain and sprocket resulting in the amputation of the finger. |
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting
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An experienced grapple yarder hook tender was dragged about 28 feet down a slope by a root wad fracturing his right leg just below the knee. The root wad was dislodged when a log was choked and started to be yarded into the log landing. |
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Worker was struck in the face with a block of wood that shot out from under the tire of a wheel loader. Block was 8.9 lbs and traveled 40 ft before striking the worker. |
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A worker received 2nd degree chemical (green liquor) burns to his arms and face while cleaning inside a confined space (green liquor clarifier). |
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A certified manual tree faller lost control of the intended direction of fall of a 3.6 feet diameter by 85 feet tall red cedar tree. The tree fell uphill into the standing trees causing a smaller tree to be pushed over and fall towards the faller. The top portion of the smaller tree hit the faller on the head. |
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A log loader being transported on a low-bed trailer contacted a 138-kV overhead power line. The line was severed and fell onto a gas line right-of-way. |
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A worker was injured after being struck with the tree he was falling. During the falling process he cut the majority of the hingeoff, inserted a wedge and lifted the tree off the stump. The tree swung on the wedge and landed on his foot trapping him. The tree fell on the worker causing fractures to the pelvis, a number of ribs and broke his ankle. |
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Heart Attack (confirmed by coroner) |
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting
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The operator of a feller-buncher was found with his upper torso crushed between the partially open door and the door frame of the machine he was operating. It appears that, as he was leaning out of the open door the machine rotated, with the open door making contact with a nearby tree. |
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting
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While the Chaser/Buckerman was processing (i.e. bucking broken end), a 20ft. log in a "Cable Logging" log landing area, he was run over and crushed by a tracked log loader. |
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Yarding/ Mechanical Harvesting
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Grapple yarder flopped over on a 23% sloped logging road while it was being positioned in preparation for yarding. |
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While attempting to swing a barge ramp into position with a Grove 20t model RT60S the left side front jack stabilizer failed causing significant damage to the crane. |
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In foggy weather, a loaded logging truck on a public highway lost control at a bend and corssed the centre line. Its rear trailer was struck by an unloaded logging truck coming from the other direction. The driver of the second truck was seriously injured. |
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A loaded logging truck went off a city road and struck a powerpole. |
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting
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A buckerman trimming logs in a dry sort was struck by logs being carried by a loader. |
September |
Other |
F |
Worker killed in a barge accident. |
September |
Log Hauling |
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A loaded logging truck flipped onto its side and came to rest on the wrong side of the road. The entire load of logs ended up in the ditch and on the lawn of a city park. |
September |
Traveling to and from work |
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A worker was called back to a worksite in MacKenzie and was fatally injured in a head-on collision with a logging truck while enroute. |
September |
Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting |
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A 3800C Madill log Loader/ hoe forwarder was forwarding wood/hoe chucking to roadside, on an average 23% slope. The Machine suddenly tilted backwards causing the machine to flop on its cab side seriously injuring the operator. |
August |
Sawmill |
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Worker suffered a partial amputation of the index finger of the left hand while adjusting the clipper saw board with the saw running. |
August |
Manual Tree Falling |
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A certified faller was struck in the hip when a tree barber-chaired. |
August |
Sawmill |
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A worker was performing clean-up/wash down duties from the deck of a catwalk. The worker fell 17' to the ground below when the expanded metal deck of the catwalk gave way. |
August |
Log Hauling |
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An Hitachi model EX 400 excavator operator was constructing a new logging road when the excavator slid approximately 70 feet down the hill. The excavator hit a rock ledge and rolled upside down and slid an additional distance of approximately 80 feet and landed on another rock ledge. The cab was severely crushed and partially buried in mud. It took approximately 4 hours to extricate the operator who was pinned inside the cab. |
August |
Sawmill |
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A worker's leg became caught in a fifteen-blade edger. |
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A chip truck left the road into a ditch, returned to the roadway and overturned. |
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A certified faller fell a large cedar tree that struck a previously felled tree. When the previously felled tree was struck it pivoted uphill, striking the faller in the upper body. |
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This incident involved a Log Haul driver chatting with a group of Owner/Operators outside of the mill office. The driver went behind a parked pick up truck. The owner of the pick up decided to start the truck in order for the air conditioning to cool it down. He put one foot in the truck to depress the clutch, not realizing the truck was in reverse gear, he released the clutch, the truck leapt back and pinned the victim against the retaining wall. |
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A loaded 7 axle logging truck tipped over while negotiating a turn from Rosedale Avenue onto Hwy 97. The intersection is off camber towards the outside of the turn and the turn is slightly greater that 90 degrees. |
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A driver was struck by a log trailer tire which blew off a rebuilt rim while he was servicing brakes. |
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A manual faller was struck by the balsam tree (10 inches in diameter) he was falling. |
August |
Sawmill |
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A Drott 5550 mobile crane with a 35 ton rated capacity lifted a load of sawmill machinery through a roof opening and was in the process of swinging the load when the crane tipped over onto its side allowing the load and boom to crash through the roof of the building. |
August |
Manual Tree Falling |
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A certified hand faller was found fatally injured by a co-worker beneath a 50' tall x 12" diameter poplar tree that had broken off approximately six feet up the stem. It appears that the faller was struck on the head by the tree. |
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting
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A rigging slinger was struck by an undetermined object (log/tree or cable). |
August |
Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting |
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A worker suffered burns to upper body when a lit cigarette lighter ignited fuel vapors while re-fueling of mobile equipment was occurring. |
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A logging truck driver was outside of his truck preparing to cinch the load. The truck began to move forward. In the truck drivers attempt toregain control of the truck, he sustained fatal injuries when he was struck by a log as the trailer rolled on to its side. |
August |
Sawmill |
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An electrician was troubleshooting a problem with a photo cell on a quad saw. The worker bypassed the photo cell; the saw carriage traversed. The worker was caught between the frame of the saw carriage and a nearby vertical support structure. |
July |
Sawmill |
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Electricians left foot came into contact with running saw on composer. |
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting
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A large boulder dislodged on a hillside being cable logged. It rolled downhill and struck the hooktender who was assisting the crew in setting chokers. |
July |
Log Hauling |
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The driver of a Kenworth tractor-trailer unit stopped at a mandatory brake check stop where he checked and adjusted the brakes on the tractor-trailer unit. The driver then went to the restroom and upon exit observed that the tractor-trailer unit had rolled into the right hand ditch of the pull-out where it struck and and broke a hydro pole. |
July |
Traveling to and from Work |
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A pick-up truck was descending a straight section in a gravel surfaced roadway when the driver lost control of the vehicle as it was passing a loaded logging truck. The pick-up truck traveled off the left side of the roadway and rolled over onto its cab as it went down a 35' steep embankment. |
July |
Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting |
I |
An owner operator of a 992 John Deere high rise cab log loader was seriously injured when the cab of the machine fell forward while working on a 22% grade. The operator was not wearing a seatbelt and was thrown into the front window and window guards of the log loader sustaining serious injury. |
July |
Silviculture |
I |
A worker was acting as a spotter while a vehicle was loaded onto a flatdeck trailer. As the vehicle was being loaded, the unsecured trailer was pushed forward and the worker was caught between the front of the trailer deck and the rear of a pickup truck. |
July |
Manual Tree Falling |
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A short chunk of wood, that was not cleared away from the stump area, was struck by a tree being felled. This caused the chunk to strike the certified faller on the left leg. |
July |
Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting |
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A FMC tracked skidder lost its brakes, ran down slope approximately 300 yds, went over a cutbank, landed on a haul road and flopped onto it's side. |
July
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Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting |
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A hooktender was preparing to rig an intermediate lift tree. When he attempted to remove a snag which was hung up in the tree, the snag broke off and struck him on the head and chest. The hooktender had not been trained as a faller. |
July |
Log Hauling |
CC |
A loaded off-road logging truck lost braking power while descending a steep logging road. The driver steered the truck into the ditch and managed to bring it to a complete stop without overturning the truck. The air supply for the braking system had not been completely built up before the truck descended the hill. |
July |
Silviculture |
I |
A worker, acting as a spotter in an operation to load a vehicle onto a cargo flatbed trailer, was caught between the front of the trailer deck and the rear of a pickup truck when the trailer was pushed forward by the vehicle being loaded on the trailer. The worker sustained a pelvic fracture injury as a result of this accident. |
June |
Manual Tree Falling |
I |
A certified faller fell a previously topped tree uphill on a 76% sidehill. The tree slid back down the hill and struck another previously felled tree which pivoted, striking the faller and throwing him onto the sliding tree. The faller traveled 15 meters downhill and was pinned between a portion of the topped tree and the tree felled uphill. |
June |
Helicopter Logging |
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This heli-logging rigger was struck in the head and back by a tree top, that fell approximately 60 - 70 feet. |
June |
Yarding/ Mechanized Harvesting |
I |
A landing chaser on a cable logging operation was struck on the head and shoulder by a log which fell out of a turn being lowered to the landing. |
June |
Sawmill |
I |
A sawyer lost his balance and, in an attempt to recover himself, contacted the clipper saw with his hand. |
June |
Sawmill |
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A worker was fatally injured at the West Fraser mill in Fraser Lake BC. Little is known at this time. He was crushed when a large square oil tote tank that was being moved fell on |
