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