[rey]

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.

[marktwain]

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.

[blueunicorn6]

Watch the movie SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

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.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

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?

[RedStateRocker]

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.

[dragnet2]

$18 an hour for a logger? What’s that after taxes? 10 bucks an hour?? Good grief!

Those people are being robbed...

[SauronOfMordor]

He went into a dangerous job because he wanted to be able to financially support his woman.

I knew a guy back in college, who was earning his way doing diving salvage/repair. He had an upper-middle-class girlfriend who he wanted to be able to show a good time. He died at the age of 20.