A worker on a portable sawmill was killed when he was hit in the head by an unguarded drive shaft that had been displaced by the impact of heavy equipment working in the area. A mobile log loader machine backed into a sawmill and knocked it off its support blocks. This allowed the unguarded, rotating drive shaft between the sawmill and the generator to break free and hit the victim. The operator of the log loader was backing up the machine in poor visibility when the collision occurred. The drive shaft was not protected by a guard to prevent it from breaking […]