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apd Face pale.
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egecially on face.

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mn! Badache.
Hai breathing.

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alsnady place and put on
nirdlothes.

w4 dloths to head.

llypy by a ‘ing.

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o> to Soret as soon

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tom, es ware eee ue aa net
trees first and ii
ber.

Soule who was the faller Soe

cided ps peck ke ove ee m=

lock wl anding

side a ne fir. ir He ait his ae

cut in and then panics with his

backeut but the tree appeared to| the hemlock w:
ii i

The tree still refused to fall s

the idea of bringing them both
down together.
Before sawing the fir he shout-

and
ing the backcut,

fir and fell

k So i-
rectly in line with the first un-
dercut,

When the tree’ fell it struck
Henson killing him instantly.
Whether he heard Soule’s warn-
ing shout or not is a matter of

ED HAW, F:

“Hung-Up” Tree Kills Bucker

W.C.B. INSPECTOR WHISKER examining hemlock tree which Kdlled CA. Henson, buck for ie
dee Timber Compsny ay Eira Island. At
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N. NCE SECRETARY, of Local 1-118, IWA
anding in when kille d. The deesased was ae a snag in the centre of ‘the
Hay

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conjecture. Sia when atrack by the tree lying behind

HE DECENT ATTITUDE

what is the decent attitude toward possible amputa>
tions, 5» nds, sudden death—your own or the fellow’s who
work w has parts:
1. a under-rate hazards. Realize, see, imagine the con-
mantis of serious injury.
Live freely ea without fear, always weighing the risk
against the
» Hate Ree needless, ignorant hazards as you
would hate the deri Hes sae And do everything you
possibly can to ro

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TRAINING aoe

lack Moore, Financial Secretary of Local 1-85, IWA, Port
Nose ni, has proposed a safety course on the hazards Gi the
Luss industry for green employees.

aid: “It becoi mes increasingly more apparent that the

toll a asia life which ‘is
could cut down even
course on what
hazards to watch before sending them to work.”

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A SHORT. SHORT STORY A

‘OT To BE CONTIMVED)

ELEVEN DIE IN MAY

Eleven more fatal acci- ind
ay

dents in the mo Timed oss seeents for the

ave been reported by the same period we
Workmen’s Compensation Total- fatalities eh 1954
Board for the B.C. lumber are 29, with 3143 injuries.

1954
ACCIDENT
> TOLL ~—
MAY 1954 TOTAL

DEAD ---- 11
| INJURED - 637