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Death of Fort Bragg man is third logging tragedy for his fiancee
Press Democrat ^
| 9 May 2017
Posted on 05/09/2017 9:55:14 AM PDT by rey
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Sad story but what are the odds. What the article doesn't say is that death rates are nearly double what they were in previous years (64 in 2012). Is this due to an influx in immigrant labor? Is it the lack of logging activity resulting in less skilled and practiced workers?
As usual, the article misses a lot.
I thought the company was reasonably generous in paying out to her as she was only a fiance and not his wife (perhaps the payment is to his daughter) and paying for funeral expenses, something I seldom hear of.
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:55:15 AM PDT
by
rey
To: rey
One of my brushes with death was working as chain man to hook up logs to be pulled to clear a power line.
Spent a week in the hospital.
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posted on
05/09/2017 9:58:43 AM PDT
by
marktwain
(President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
To: rey
Watch the movie SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:02:02 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
Yep, that’s a good movie.
To: rey
Something to ponder next time you pick up some 2x4 lumber at the yard. Brave men in this industry. I worked a lot in younger years in sawmills and pulp mills. Lots of danger there, too. There’s nothing like losing control of black liquor boiler smelt chemistry. It sounds like hand grenades going off in the smelt tank.
To: blueunicorn6
That was the first movie HBO showed.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:12:20 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
To: blueunicorn6
In the Northwest, the timber industry used to be a place where a young guy could make good money without having to go to college.
The timber industry is just about gone from there now.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:13:05 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: ProtectOurFreedom
Yep.
My Dad worked at pulp mills.
They had one fatality or crippling injury per year out of about 300 guys.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:16:02 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: rey
The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the accident, which occurred off a logging road about 15 miles northeast of Fort Bragg.Ummm...isn't Fort Bragg in NC? Why is The California OSHA investigating?
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:18:21 AM PDT
by
Bloody Sam Roberts
(Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
I watched it again several months ago. It was unedited and showed the Dad’s arm.
Makes my stomach churn to watch it because I grew up with people like that.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:19:57 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
There is also a Fort Bragg in California.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:20:04 AM PDT
by
Publius
("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
To: blueunicorn6
My gramps had a logging tug boat on the Klamath river back in the early 50’s.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:23:39 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
To: rey
Logging is one of the most dangerous jobs there is. FAR more dangerous than cop or firefighter, with much worse pay.
Fort Bragg is a beautiful area, hoping to retire to there.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:24:44 AM PDT
by
RedStateRocker
(Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Did you live in Longview?
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:37:07 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
Nope. Humboldt county all my life.
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:39:48 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:42:06 AM PDT
by
rey
To: rey
$18 an hour for a logger? What’s that after taxes? 10 bucks an hour?? Good grief!
Those people are being robbed...
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:43:18 AM PDT
by
dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: blueunicorn6
Watch the movie SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION.
Lee Remick alone makes it very watchable.
To: Lurkina.n.Learnin
Pretty country.
I mixed up the Klamath and Cowlitz rivers.
I have like geography dyslexia.
“Please go up and point out Kentucky on the map.”
“Ummmmmm.....here?”
“No, that is California.”
“So my cousin in Lexington is lying when he tells me he goes surfing all the time?”
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:53:13 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: blueunicorn6
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posted on
05/09/2017 10:55:29 AM PDT
by
Lurkina.n.Learnin
(Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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