A 47-year-old logger was working to set the chokers in a cable logging operation. He was working with a partner on a turn of logs under a high lead cable system. The pair was working on opposite sides of the skyline - the cable that ran to a central tower and pulled the timber to a central location for loading. Once the turn was set, the logger signaled the yarder engineer to activate the cable and begin pulling the logs. A small diameter, tree-length log became hung up on a nearby stump, and snapped free of the chain, hitting the […]