gS. Ea B.C. LUMBER WORKER rors BALSAM @ 1s FELLED. On ALDER, @ AFTER ALDER © WHIPS BACK TOP FLIES OFF, STRIKING DECEASED. a and the top threw back. The men saw the tup coming towards them and ran to.get in the clear, but a piece struck deceased. DEAD... Age: 24, Occupation: Faller. April 27, 1950. Deceased and partner had a f power saw owned by deceased, They felled a balsam which st He died on the way to hospita and arm. the accident was working alone at the cold-deck pile, hooking on the logs and sending in his own signals. The bug was located about 40 Experience: 2 years. Date: alling and bucking contract, using ruck an alder, The alder whipped 1 from fractures of the skull, face micaina wey> NEAR oF Pie CEDAR LOG EVIDENTLY ROLLED OFF PILE, BROKEN END CATC) DEAD... Occupation: Hooktender. Age: 34. Experience: 12 years. Date: May 10,1950. * Deceased usually worked with feet from the pile. The rigging had just been bro ‘nalled for it to stop, leaving it tig! tree investigated and found deceased at the foot of the cold-deck pile with his left thigh fractured and a serious wound in his side. A cold-deck crew, who were about 700 feet away, was called and the injured man transported to camp. He died about an hour later. ty would appear that deceased was struck by a cedar Jog with a forked top, which must have rolled off the pile. There were some fibres of cloth on the jagged end of one of the*forked tops. 2 No further signals being receiv. another man, but at the time of Y jught back and deceased had sig- ht-lined. ed one of the men from the home UNSAFE CONDITIONS CORRECTED Investigation of two mill ac- cidents by W. M. Allison, Safety Director, B.C. Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, brought to light the causes and remedies to prevent recurrence. In his advice to Safety Com- mittees, Mr. Allison states. A millwright received a compara- tively serious injury while working at a table rip saw. The workman was ripping three- quarters of an inch off a piece of hard- wood 9 ins. wide and 22 ins. long. When the cut was completed, the workman leaned across the table and picked up the 814 x 22 inch piece to bring it back. In so doing the end contacted the top of the revolving rip saw, throwing it violently back and striking the workman in the face. The saw was equipped with a suit- able hood guard; but it was lying,on the floor. The saw was also guarded with a fence, but was back at the edge of the table’ and had not Been used. There was no evidence that the work- man had used a push stick, and the saw was adjusted to rip 4 or S-inch stock, not Irinch stock. The unsafe conditions present in this accident were: 1, No guard on the saw. 2. Saw not adjusted for ripping 1-inch stock. 3. No push Sticks or push blocks available when working to close tolerances. 4, No splitter. The unsafe practices were: 1. Operating the saw without a guard. 2. Not using the fence, 3. Not requesting and using push blocks or push sticks. 4. Using the saw when it was not suitably adjusted for the work. 5. Reaching across the saw table over -the saw. All the unsafe conditions found were immediately cor- rected. Other workmen have been instructed in the safe practices of using this saw, after the accident occurred. Seldom Used But— This particular saw was installed some time ago for the use of the mill- wright staff. Therefore, it was seldom used and then by a number of differ- ent workmen, which is possibly one reason why it did not receive as. close attention as other pieces of machinery in the plant. It is our sad experience that many accidents result in that part of the plant where “no one ever goes", or on those machines that are “never used”, If you have machines, tools or equipment in this plant that are only used occasionally, they should receive an even more thorough inspection than the equipment used regularly, as acci- dents take place in a fraction of a second and they are not réspectors of persons. : \ Another accident has resulted to a workman from a familiar cause. Edger Rolls The millwright was working on an edger and had the rolls propped up with a block of wood. The block came out, allowing the rolls to drop on the workman's arm. Occasionally these blocks have come out because they have’ nut been set in true. In other casts they have been knocked out by some tool being uscd | on the repair job. The safe practice of holding the eager rolls open when work is being performed we believe is to have a picee of chain or cable sus- pended from above with a hook that can be attached to the raised roll. When this method is used it is im; possible for the roll to drop unless the chain or cable breaks. We would rec- ommend that all plants adopt this simple yet efficient method of holding the edger rolls open. : Words That Hurt “Tf that dope can get by with it, then I oughta be able to.” “It just happened. Just one of those things.” “Everybody else does it.” ramp alone, CAUSE _AND CURE » ‘SIX JOB HAZARDS The following examples are selected from reports of actual accidents. They point out the causes and the steps taken to remove the causes. The elimin- ation of job hazards is a first step in building a safety pro- gram. - Unsafe Jump spection twisted his body in jumping from a pit and suffered ahernia. = + CORRECTION: Efforts were made to discourage jumping on the job and to remind employees to avoid strains when the body is in an awkward position. a owe Falling Tool Operator of gas engine laia crank on engine sill. Vibration caused it to slip off, and fall on his foot, breaking toes. CORRECTION: Operators were told to,store crank on floor under engine, and were encour- aged to wear safety shoes which would have prevented injury. * + Electrocuted When a craneman swung the boom against a high tension wire, a hooker who ran to help was electrocuted. The operator clear- ing the contact was unhurt. CORRECTION: Orders were given to operate cranes no closer than 10 feet to power lines. .In case of contact, operator must swing boom to break contact be- fore leaving cab. Others must) not touch rig. HORS. oa Slippery Floor Employee slipped on grease while straightening blocks under trailer. He struck his head on the concrete floor and fractured his skull. CORRECTION: Keep all grease and- other material that may cause falls, off the floors. Stress good housekeeping throughout the entire working) area. * 2 Broken Leg Broken concrete from old ma- chine foundation was being moved] through the plant on truck, when large piece jarred loose and fell on machine operator, breaking leg. CORRECTION: Truckers and loaders were ordered to trim all loads carefully before’ starting trucks, which were re-routed through less hazardous areas, to dumping place. No Samson Preparing to ynload car, han- dler tried to move heavy dock- board without assistance and suf- fered back strait CORRECTION: Crew was in- structed in proper methods of lifting. Rule was enforced that! one man must not try’ to lift’ Foreman making rounds of in-| | Reports of the W: another 8 fatal accidents - All fatal accidents ‘There were 578 accidents This brings the 1950 c: | June. 3 ‘ Make Our 1950-51 contract is signed, so now get on with the job of making the e tract is the clause which provides for thi mittee. We should all be on our toes to It was written into the contract for # is only the men on the job that can put Active safety committees on the job are: ditions. There has been no change in the would haye liked to see a provision that | preyention committee should be sent to th Even though it is not in the contra tee members the necessity and reasons for Union can be informed as to whether the | tioning. JULY 8 JUNE 28 f The last issue of the B.C. Lumber W, that is close to my hedrt—the costly and woods, due to inadequate training and sup vi A boy of 16, dead and buried, after onl What training did he have? What starting to work? Isn't it time that we did sir In the same he figures were pu 3,161 injured. The big proportion of these a Let us look at the cost for a moment involved over the years. Suppose we set | the 26 killed’ for an amount of only $1 would amount to $390,000, not to mention # to many of the 3,161 who were injured. — This has been going on year after y gering sum. ‘ ‘The cost actually comes out of my p charge compensation to overhead costs and | Now is the time to demand that job safety for people in industry so that the job. Plan All needless killing and maiming of mei stop. It is up to each and every IWA n We can take these steps. 2 1, We can learn to work safely. We 2, We can help our fellow-workers to ¥ 3. We can collectively insist that men 4. We can collectively insist that th equipment is regularly inspected. 5. We can, each one of us, take our done the safe way. JULY 10 Talking with the business agents of work in that Local is progressing well. a while. : ‘They say that they have set up 45 operations, which is over 50 pere tification. By the same token, it shows that terest is taken in safety that the com enough. Every certified operation has mittee. I OVO RWOWEETTED | . “We were only fooling. We ‘didn’t mean to hurt him.”