Abstract
There are 467 forest depots belonging to 243 forest enterprises in Turkey. These depots are the areas where the wood raw material from the forest is stored and sold to the buyers and delivered. In these areas where works such as loading, unloading, transportation and stacking are carried out, several accidents with severe consequences such as death may occur, as well as minor and moderate injuries. A significant part of these accidents occurs due to the collision or compaction of the wood falling/rolling off the truck or stack or vehicle movements. In the regions with the highest wood harvesting, daily works were observed in 5 terminal forest depots, which can represent forest depots in terms of size, tree species, works and product range, and photographs and video recordings were taken with the help of drones and cameras. Nearly 290 hours of footage were evaluated in the office environment, and technical and administrative solutions were listed to minimize health and safety risks due to unsafe conditions and movements. In addition, when 6 fatal accidents in different regions are examined, it has been determined that the risk area is the active area consisting of the stacker - loading machine - transport vehicle (truck / tractor) triangle during loading or unloading, and the drivers of the transport vehicles and loader workers are generally the ones who died. The solutions emphasized in this study will help improve safety performance in depots for wood raw material belonging to various forest industrial firms.