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SAFETY WEEK
EXCELS 1951

Most recent reports on the achievements of Safety
Week, May 12-16, indicate that the successes surpassed
those of 1951. Only four compensable accidents have been
reported to date, and a large percentage of the mills are

1952 The Worst

Seven more woodworkers killed in B.C. during the month of
April and 775 time-loss accidents bring the totals for the first
four months of this year to 28 dead and 3017 injured.

Logging still leads in April for the highest number of
casualties with 462 accidents as compared to 313 accidents re-
ported for lumber, milling, pulp and paper.

Table below compares figures of the period for three years:

1950 1951 1952

still flying the flag of safety.

IWA and BCLMA officials in-
terested in the promotion of the
campaign are in agreement that
greater enthusiasm and -more in-
tensive effort characterized this
year's promotion. ‘The result
claimed is that a larger number
have realized the importance and
practicability of making sawmills
safe places in which to work.

Four Accidents

The four accidents reported re-
sulted in two fractures, one caus-
ed by a fall from a lumber pile,
and one when a tail-sawyer was

DEAD .... 20

INJURED

DEAD

28

BAD .. -
Hs 3017

INJURED

23
186

struck by a cant. Another acci-
dent victim suffered an injured
back as the result of a’ fall, and
the fourth man recklessly placed
his hand in the way of a trim
saw, with a serious cut in conse-
quence.

The experience of Safety Week
has proved invaluable in its dra-
matization of the everyday les-
sons required to recognize and
defeat danger on the job, declar-
ed Safety Director John T. At-
kinson.

RECORD BREAKERS

KELOWNA SAFETY SESSION _

IWA members of Local 1-80,

rate in a logging operation.

Observers agree that the
achievements in the camp are
most remarkable especially in
view of a former record of acci:
dents which had caused some
j concern. The success this
{attributed to the combined inter-
est and participation of the 260
worl and the camp manage-
ment.

Following is the record
the last date of report:

to

FRASER MILLS SAFETY COMMITTEE plons to establish new safety record
for largest sawmill in British Commonwealth. (Back row, teft) Tony Hehn,
Leo Stadnyk, Bill Russell, Harmon Phillips.
Spooner, Lucien Bouthot, Reg Davis, Chairman: Lee Paliner.

TIMELY HINTS

An ounce of safety resolution |as the main source of industrial
now is worth many pounds of ac-|injuries. Know how to handie
cident cure later in the year. yourself, your job and the objects

Handling objects usually ranks | you work with.

Accident-free days to May
| 12, 1952 90
Frequency rate to end of
April, 1952 . mei
Accidents compensable, Feb.
(Front row, left) Charli ae ist ee 1

the recipients of warm congratu-
latiqns from the officials of Local
1-80} IWA;-who now look to this
|camp to
1952.

Approximate accident-free
heurs of exposure, 116,806
Safety committee members are

set a new record for

—— , ), SAFER WORK

OCCUPATION: ENGINEER,

AGE: 57

EXPERIENCE: 30 YEARS
DATE: DECEMBER 14, 1951.

Using an A Frame, a 32 foot log, 17 inches at smallest diameter
was being yarded down a steep sidebill.

‘The log slid across an arbutus, swung on the choker and rammed
the machine killing the engineer instantly,

Dead...

EXPERTS PLAN

Safety men from the forest
industries of the Western Unit-
ed States and Canada will meet
in Vancouver May 29, 30, 31
at the 18th Annual Western
Forest Products Safety Confer-
ence to discuss the vital prob-
lem of keeping workmen from
getting injured.

Chairman T. E. North, Alaska
Pine & Cellulose Co. Ltd., said
that about 300: delegates were
expected to attend, and that
many of them would come from
the central and eastern States,
despite the fact that this is sup-
posed to be a western conference,
Well known speakers from both
Canada and the United States

-weight in making the Conference
a success. They will include M.
J. Foley, executive vice-president
of the Powell River Co. Ltd.,
Vancouver; George Drake, vice.
awa president of the Simpson Log-
ging Co., Shelton, Wash., who is
also president of the Society of
American Foresters; W. C. Main-
waring, vice-president of the B.C.
Electric, Vancouver; Paul H. Co-
burn, director of the Motor
Transportation Division, National
Safety Council, Chicago; and
Seth Jackson, Safety Director for
the United States Forest Service,
Subjects will include “The Rig.
ing Cost of Accidents and Insur-
ance”, ‘Development of Safe
Working Attitudes”, “A Saget,

Course For Employees’, ji .

COPPER CANYON RECORD

IWA, active on the safety com-

mittee in the Copper Canyon Camp, MacMillan and Bloedel Ltd.,
proudly claim a unique’ record in reducing the accident frequency

WRONG-WAY

-/FALL KILLS

LINDQUIST

Circumstances of the acei-
dental: death of Edward Lind-
quist, bucker, at Bradley Creek
Logging Co., Union Bay, May
2nd, prompted a recommenda-
tion that only two men be em-
ployed in falling gangs using
power saws, at the inquest.

tended by Financial Secretary J.
Holst, Local 1-363, TWA, was to
the effect that the bucker was
struck down while working in an
area where his presence was un-
known to the fallers,

After stopping to file the
power saw chain the fallers felled
two hemloeks. During this time
the bucker went back to the gas
can, and then started working on

one of the hemlocks unknown to
the fallers.

The fallers started on a 48-inch
cedar which they found to be rot-
ten on one side. When working
on the back cut the tree pulled
over in the wrong direction and
trapped the bucker,

SS

She: “I think men should wear
something to show they are mar-
ried. Women wear wedding
rings.”

H
year’s

“Men do. They wear last
lothes,”

many others.

Evidence at the inquest, at-'

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May 20th. bi
The victim, 17 years 9
deck. He attempted to re
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