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A busy season on logging roads (260kb)
Chainsaw kickback fatally injures worker trying to free jam-up (281kb)
Chainsaw operator ruptures ear drum while wearing ear plug (300kb)
Driver falls from edge of truck deck, fracturing his leg and ankle (2mb)
Hog mill worker dies from entanglement in conveyor belt (168kb)
Log truck drives through stop sign, narrowly missed by freight train (201kb)
Maintenance worker's hand drawn into bull edger (176 kb)
Millwright injured when parts cabinet topples forward (308kb)
Millwright struck by stacker carriage suffers broken arm (193kb)
Pike pole strikes electrical wires, causing mill-wide power outage (321kb)
Resaw operator’s shoulder broken after shirt-tail caught in rollers (223kb)
Rolling safety ladder topples, maintenance worker fractures pelvis (142kb)
Sawmill worker crushed trying to remove broken logs (167kb)
Sawmill worker’s foot caught in moving drag chain (224kb)
Sawmill worker's lower leg broken when log slips off pulp hook (240kb)
Sawmill worker struck in head, suffers concussion and fractures (369kb)
Sawmill worker suffers twisted knee from contact with lumber (195kb)
Two recent incidents illustrate the dangers of exploding tires (386kb)
Two pieces of 2x4 ejected by edger into a wall (250kb)
Workers burned in dust explosion (1.4mb)
Worker crushed between barrel and structure of load aligner (291kb)
Worker falls from infeed trough, suffers broken hip and collarbone (195kb)
Worker fractures leg in icy parking lot PDF (2mb)
Worker's hand drawn into planer feeder PDF (300kb)
Worker’s leg fractured in two places when truck slips off floor jack (187kb)
Young worker dies after coming into contact with sawmill edger (189kb)
1992 incident highlights hazards of logging roads in summer (287kb)

 

 

 

 

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