don't become a statistic

[clearance]

Check this site out, it is the Workers Compensation Board of B.C.s website. There is tons of information here about safe forestry practices, especially safe chain saw use. worksafe b.c.

 

[tophopper]

What site?

 

[clearance]

type into google worksafe b.c.

 

[tophopper]

worksafebc



There ya go clearance!

 

[xtremetrees]

I got powerline work to do this week, my back will be a few feet within limits. Kool nice site

Table 19-3: Limits of approach for utility arborists Voltage range A. Insulated tool limit for certified utility arborists B. Work limit for certified utility arborists C. Work limit for apprentice utility arborists
Phase to phase Metres Feet Metres Feet Metres Feet
Over 750 V to 20 kV 0.3 1 0.9 3 3 10
Over 20 kV to 30 kV 0.5 1.5 1.2 4 3 10
Over 30 kV to 75 kV 0.9 3 1.5 5 3 10
Over 75 kV to 250 kV 2.1 7 3 10 4.5 15
Over 250 kV to 325 kV 2.6 8.5 4.5 15 6 20
Over 325 kV to 550 kV 3.7 12 6 20 6 20

 

[clearance]

thank you

 

[clearance]

Xtreme- please follow "C" limits of approach, and that also means inadvertent movement for you, and vegetation that could violate this limit must be restrained or topped first so it cannot violate.

 

[B.Secord]

Clearance,

I see that the accident rates are substantially reduced in the last 5 years, what has changed? Could it be that the softwood lumber industry is hurting because our neighbors to the south have imposed an unrealistic tariff on the wood?Or could it be that the industry is finally realizing that people are more than machines?

 

[clearance]

B. Secord-the accident rates have gone up, last year 43 loggers were killed here. No one likes to see a fatality, so many variables, it is a very complicated story.

 

[B.Secord]

Clearance

I agree that any accident is very serious for the family as well as the industry,as a whole. I went back and checked the site that you mentioned before, and found the following:

Fatal accidents 2000-21
2001-28
2002-25
2003-15
2004-12

The government site is typical of not getting the recent stats. up very quickly, and I was unaware that the numbers are up for 2005. It ia sad to see so many people that will never return to their home and families. The stats also say that the greatest number of injuries where struck bys, but doesn't mention if they where the result of someone elses actions.

One thing that comes to mind is, is the typical commercial arborist on this site as prone to a like type accidents that a forestry personel have. For instance when felling a tree,on a per capita basis, who is more likely to have an incident? Or possibly there may be no differance at all.

 

[clearance]

Logging is way more dangerous than arborist type stuff here, if you are falling everthing you cut is above you, you are usually further away from a hospital (golden hour), you are working with machinery and wood sizes that are on a bigger scale, heavier, larger,with more power. Also when you are an arborist it is one or a couple of trees a day, when you log, trees are just flying, literally. Sometimes I watch the grapple yarder when I am in a tree, it looks like a huge excavator crossed with a crane, screaming V-12 Detroit diesel, cables than run hundreds of feet uphill to a block. The log grapple on the cables must wiegh 2-3 thousand lbs., it grabs logs and yards them like a guy with a flyrod. Struck bys include trees that hit fallers, logs that hit the yarding crew, machines that hit people I believe.

 

[xtremetrees]

Yes clearance, I see that even under aprentise distance Im right on the line thou the vegation is closer. I do fall under aprentice distances because I do not get this close everyday. Its a big job I'll get them to insulate it.


Edit on second thought maybe I should let this job ride. I cant do it without breaking tollerance, The stems go 15 feet and must be 30 of them.This is level height with powerline to apt complex.

Not to mention them logger back then used to burn 8000 claories a day!