APRIL 29, 2015
CRANMOOR, WISCONSIN
A 52-year-old Wisconsin Rapids man has died after a logging
accident Wednesday morning west of Wisconsin Rapids in the Town of Cranmoor.
According to a news release from the sheriff's department,
the man was logging timber when he was struck in the head. The man was
pronounced dead at the scene. The accident happened around 11:38 a.m.
The victim's name is not being released until family is
notified.
50% of logging fatalities resulted from “being struck by a
falling object”
BLS indicated that there were 158 fatalities in the logging
industry in 2012, which amounts to a 2 in 1,000 risk of death each year.
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NIOSH estimated that there are 16,500 compensable injuries
each year in the logging industry. This amounts to an incidence rate of 1 in every
5 loggers.
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According to the USDA, the accident rate in the logging
industry has pushed workers’ compensation insurance to 40% of payroll costs