B.C. LUMBER WORKER

the workmen’s welfare
ion of work areas, equip-

nt occurrences.

g unsafe conditions.

by what means and to

stir up enthusiasm and en-

4 ess to show apprecia-
the safety programme is

ation Board.

IS W. PRITCHARD, Commissioner
ABLETT, Commissioner

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GEO. WALMSLEY

C.P.R. MAN
PRAISES IWA

War zones are now as safe
as present-day industry, con-
tended George Walmsley, Dis-
trict Safety Supervisor for the
CPR, in addressing annual re-

gional safety conferences of the

B.C. Lumber Manufacturers’

Association at Duncan, V:

toria, and New Westminster.

He referred to the fact that

Canadian industry is annually

responsible for 10,000 acciden-

tal deaths and 800,000 crippling
|| injuries.
| ‘The speaker claimed that a
60% reduction in the accident
frequency rate had been accomp-
lished throughout the transpor-
tation system of the CPR through
the promotion of the work of
safety committees similar to
those which have been formed in
the sawmill industry.

He spoke in praise of the co-

operative attitude shown by the

IWA, in the safety program for

the lumber industry and predict-

ed further success as job com-
mittees gained in experience and
confidence.

Membership in a safety com-

mittee is now regarded as an
honor among transportation
workers, he stated, and is a
badge of good citizenship.
The speaker stressed that ii
proper guarding, defective equi
ment, hazardous arrangements,
bad lighting and poor ventilation
in plants had been found to be
major contributing causes of ac-
cidents.

Added to this, unsafe acts,
such as horseplay, operating
equipment without authority,
failure to use proper tools, and
bungling methods led to an in-
crease in accidents. There are no
short-cuts to the accident pre-

Yvention regulations, he asserted.

by OFEE

the accident prevention regu

head faller Ralph Pelto $20

the Workmen’s Compensati
stances causing the death

Mr, Allan B. MacFarlane,
of Victoria, prosecuting for the
Workmen's Compensation Board,
directed examination of 12 wit:
nesses to indicate Pelto had ig-
nored a basic safety rule in fail-
ing to determine where Maddin
was before falling the tree that
| killed him.

He clashed with Mr. Cunliffe,
counsel for the defense, over ob-
taining opinion evidence as to the
woods custom of a head faller
and his scaler notifying each
other where they were in the
woods, orally or by signal.

Both counsel respectively re-
ferred to accident prevention
regulations providing that faller's

of their movements and that fail-
ers shall give timely warning to
those in vicinity of where a tree
is being felled.

| Warning Inadequate

Mr. MacFarlane submitted
there was little use in Pelto hav-
ing shouted four times “timber—
up the draw”, if in, giving the
warning he had failed to turn off
his power saw in order to catch
bany reply.
Pelto, a head faller for 10
years, said Maddin was scaler for
his crew and two others but he

with him as he was careless and
had to be watched.
Pelto declared Maddin told him
he had. finished scaling in an
area he had been assigned to and
that he watched him move
through a second area where
bucking had been carried out as
though heading for logging road,
Lovrod, charged immediately
Grown evidence was in on ,the
Pelto trial, was accused by Mac-
Farlane of haying given inade-

quate safety instruction to his
fallers,

Lovrod Dismissed

‘Magistarte Bryant dismissed
the charge against Lovrod, de-
claring he couldn’t see where he
had been in any way negligent.
His warship, however, impress-
ed upon Lovrod importance of
WCB regulations being enforced
to the highest degree possible.
He convicted Pelto after de-
claring it was plain there is a
“kind of lax manner in carrying
out provision of the regulation
he is charged with.”

Universal Box

Safety meetings for both shifts
at Universal Box Ltd., April 14,
laid plans for the promotion of
Safety Week. Attendance of over
140 at these meetings was held
to be promising for successful |
achievement,

The meetings were addressed
by District Safety Director John

. Atkinson on the principles of
the accident prevention. Safety
Director William Croy lectured

trate W. H. Bryant, Ladysmith, April 23, when he fined
Bullbucker, Martin Lovrod, was acquitted under the same
charge, with admonition. Prosecution was instituted by

January 24, in the Nanaimo Lakes operations of the
Comox Logging and Railway Co.

shall be kept informed by scalers |

had to take considerable care |

lations was ordered by Magis-

and imposed $78 court costs.

on Board because of circum-
of scaler James A. Maddin,

SAFETY TALKS
| IN KELOWNA

Interior week-end Institutes
| which commence in Kelowna May.
3-4, will feature safety discus-
sions led by the District Safety
Director, John. T. Atkinson.
| Periods devoted to safety edu-
cation will include discussion for |
exchange of ideas to make the
| work of job safety committees as |
1
i

practical as possible under condi-
tions which prevail in the In-|
| terior.

| The safety insruction is ex-
| pected to touch off an expansion
| of the Union’s safety program in
Interior operations, where the ac-
cident frequency rate has been
climbing.

Head Faller Fined For
Laxity In Man’s Death

Third conviction in British Columbia for a breach of

ST. JOHN’S
APPEAL FOR
$100,000

The St. John Ambulance As-
sociation, if successful in their;
present appeal to the general]
public’ for $100,000, will estab-.
lish 12 more highway posts in|
British Columbia, as well as
expand their magnificent work
of free first aid, home nursing
services and training programs
for all in need of it.

Last year 208 people died on
B.C. highways and the toll
may have been higher but for
the prompt attention of St.
John highway first aid post
men gaye to some of the 6624
persons injured in other road
accidents.

The trainees in this organiza-
tion are credited with saving 14
lives in the lumber industry alone
last year. Operating from 85
centres throughout B.C., its 500
trained members continue to aid
any sick or injured person with-
out thought of pay.

Weekend Institutes will also
be held in Kamloops, May 10-11, |
and in Prince George, May 17-
|18. These are arranged by the
Canadian Congress of Labor in
cooperation with the B.C. Dis-
triet Council, IWA. i

This year, hundreds of skilled
first aid attendants will be train-
ed in cooperation with the Work-
men’s Compensation Board to
cope with the vast industrial
growth sweeping B.C.

AGE: 56

After a fire the 1
was dropped at the
tail hold at the home tree,

the slack coiled.

Some of the slack was being pull.
stump when the line slid around

One of the flying coils from the

the

on first aid work.

died of injuries.

GENERAL

oor OF LINE -
STRIKES DECEASED

Dead...

OCCUPATION: HOOK TENDER
EXPERIENCE: LIFE TIME
DATE: SEPTEMBER 24, 1951.

rew were checking and re-rigging. The sky line
back spar and the crew then went to release the

‘The stump was badly charred. Three wraps were taken off and

led back to put a safety wrap on
the tree for about 75 feet.

slack hit the Hook Tender. He