Be. LUMBER WORKER ot ee “Ast Issue, |

eared that I mighty,
be crippled for life” H

fety Pages of this issue have been given over

i neceistlen by an IWA logger, of his experience as

a Lea in the Workmen's Sonpensation Board’s new

Rehabilitation Centre, in Vancou ere he is at the

moment, undergoing e extensive eciwent following an
Lise strial accident, in which he was badly injured.

to his flying

logger. Gordon Belansky, - - e
wie rll ues Ht ‘ory, is a member of My accident occurred in an in- aj
2 WA and worked ss « |stamt at Gordon River, on A ril The Howgozit is a char a
Gordon River, un- |4th, last year, while we were

Hae ‘nied April 4, 1955, | working on a sidehill landing the flight and made from th: ig
aie fol ite lowing is Belansky’s | loading trucks. I was running moment of the flight how |.
a ‘lated it to your|chokers on the lower side of the be

ee tab when one of the logs how much fuel they shoul
slipped fom the loading tongs 7

know a logger. ane d over : 4

Most of ny adult He has been| I ae no piers of what flight, at frequent i
ing the chart a graph showing §,

1 did learn Tater that I had been Se) ins Aa
trapped under two logs and that at fuel remains. A glany a
dum the crew had n forced to buck and the actual situation at aj] ¢j

ay accident “hough T would be| the logs faatiner thee withthe : ‘

compelled to leave i rigging to free me. if the progress of the flight hy.

SUPERVISOR of the X-ray Department, Walter Miller, X-rays Belansky’s rective action is needed
leg for Dr. Randall. ,
Howgozit is a ma
fore where the attendant had
was | special boot on my ie
y the Io a 5 which he tae me

ne how | weights. While I y in a
ae prone position, ee aaa ra by

the way I rai

to receive the first of many t

=

poor books you can be bri
broke’’ on fuel in mid oceatls ;

oats Aa nas, c ae This is as true of safetlas
DeLerme Sinai Jed to ies the leg back a nor- business. If you don’t keq bc

My next ston wes the DeLorme | mal.
y be broke and you majnc

j leg, how mt

w long is it since yorum

looked at your notice boardsyt
meeting, inspected your e

GORDON BELANSKY, a member of Local 1-80, IWA,, referred to the
Pt

re you flying accordy

treatment, is shown at the Centre’s Registration Desk, in charge of Mrs. ‘
M, Ross. running your fuel reserve?

Duncan Hospital healing, might leave me crippled

life
I regained consciousness in the :
King’s Daughters’ Hospital at |,,/)/now now, that if my actident
apenen cre Hose ad occurred 20 years ago I very
Uke, would have, been Ayeutied
But, fortunately in my case,

pital, I was informed that my

My ral is atment. ‘Therefore, arrange-
ne a one obo. Mind fe HIE) RHE SOKO HEUO foe me at, MRS.
misery. of the physical pain I was| tend the Workmen's Compen eens ‘s arm ey having him squeeze a metal hand clasp with Seat
that | tion Board’s new Rehabilitation Dae fe bee
ay THEO which were slow in (Cashes in Vancouv oat

Room, wl where I was taken nex t,
the Supervisor, after sali
of whic a
Ce

these examinations and
the X sirup ieenord tHe tcostn wins
able to determing: the type of
treatment that would do me most

my card, one
out for every alice

tre, started me ange a light
” Weaving Exercise | weaving errs, This weaving
In the Occupational Therapy | exercise designed to|§

ee
DR. RANDALL, one of the Board tees examines Be) Eslansky's arm to
determine th

t First Morning Here I handed my name in and

call my feelings on report- was directgd to the Medical De-

fe i the Centre’s ug then intervie d

counter, the first morning. They | and given a medical examination

were very similar, I imagine, to|and sent to the X-ray Depart-
the feelings Py a small boy going | ment. ?

«to school for the first time. Prob-| In that rather Si el

is
and the fea: the unknown, in-|ly X-ra; ayed after which er ene
__ herent in all : us. taken to the Physiotherapy Room