In the 10 years to 2023, too many New Zealanders have left home to work on a commercial forestry site and not made it home to their families at the end of the day.
While increased use of mechanisation has reduced the risks to forestry workers, a considerable cohort of manual tree fallers put themselves in harm's way to harvest trees for mills around New Zealand and the worldwide export market.
This report will analyse tree-falling fatalities so the industry can identify ways to make safety improvements for those who continue to harvest manually.
