Fallen trees
On December 26, 1999, hurricane Lothar left a trail of devastation; the gale-force winds toppled entire swaths of forest in the lowlands and in the western foothills of the Alps. The maximum wind peak was 249 km/h, measured on the Jungfraujoch. Föhn and winter storms are not uncommon in Switzerland: Vivian, Lothar, Evi, Burglind etc. are their names. They are a challenge for work safety: the clean-up work in the forests is usually very difficult. In addition to the damage caused by winter storms, people are always injured.
After Lothar, 17 people had fatal accidents during the clean-up operations in 2000, 14 of them in private and farm forests. In the following year, 19 people lost their lives during logging operations in the forest, and 17 more in 2002 and 2003 combined. Forest. The federal government reacted and set up a working group in which Suva was also represented.
Since then, private forest owners in particular have been Prevention measuresThe company is also involved in a number of other activities, such as training courses, to raise awareness of the risks involved in "logging. Professionals are responsible for cleaning up forests after a hurricane like Lothar. In forests devastated by the storm, with thrown, uprooted, broken, bent and stuck Trees and tree parts can be dangerous: whether this is due to difficult access in an unstable environment or unpredictable stresses from interlocking or unstable trees that can suddenly fall over, topple over or roll off.
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