Logging #2 After Fishing for Deadliest Jobs

[MtnHermit]

Doubt this is news to any logger but it's a deadly job.

Here's the article.

 

[bitzer]

Holy Dog####!

 

[parttime]

one of many dangers in logging

discovered this after setting up at new landing, hiding out until he was crushed by lifting the stabilizer.

 

[tramp bushler]

ya, but when you narroww the results to timber fallers and deaths per hundred its a real sobering eye opener. . . then when you narrow it to contractors and piece workers. Guess who comes out so high on the list as to make about every other profesion seem safer than bein in church.

.. One of the reasons fishing is so dangerous is there are almost no hourly employees on a fishing boat.

 

[carym2a]

Gosh I'm glad I deal with flat logs and just drive flatbeds and folklifts, I'm safe