B.C. LUMBER WORKER

JOINT
FOREST PRODUCTS

SAFETY COMMITTEE

Sponsored by

GOV.-LABOUR-MAN.

Poor Lumber Stripping
Kills Young Millworker

fred Dorn, age 20 years, |from the remaining 1

Manfi
recently employed as a blocker
lift tr )

The lift truck had re backed

trapping Dorn before he could
escape.

Death Instantaneous

severe was the extent of the
W.

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Bag eae i eetone ie ign Hess eke WaT vies

Gavia: tacémore Hie stripping

instantaneous.

“We r
Factors, which Safety feats renuley
believe contributed to be

th

. e bottom load of the fal-
ln ae ihed been improper-

. ‘Phe yietim who had bee!
given pesuereatelnineieae
tions showed too much eag-

erness in being quick at his
job.
3. ae ae Bee in the
ard made it necessary

A coroner's jury, held April 11,
to investigate Dorn’s death, ruled
that it was accidental and at-
tached the following rider:
ommend. ined the WCB

0: a lhered to, and
recoil at all Sandon
Tenet loads ve a with a mini-
on the out-

of three cross ties be used when-
ever loads are piled on top of
each other.”

“DEATH PILE” which claimed the life of Manfred Dorn, April 8th, at the Canadian White Pine

Company, Vancouver.

POOR STRIPPING—A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR.

B.C. Loggers’ Association
B.C. Lumber Manufacturers”
Association

Canadian Pulp and Pape
Association (Western Division)
Consolidated Red Cedar Shingle
Association,
Federal- ae agement
ration Service
Forest Industrial Relations Ltd.

Interior Lumber Manufacturers’
sociation

International Brotherhood of

Pulp, Sulphite and Paper Mill

Workers

International Brotherhood of

Paper Makers

International Woodworkers
of

Northern Interior Lumber

Association

Plywood Manufacturers’

Association of B. C.

Pulp and Paper Industrial
Relations Bureau

Shingle Weavers’ Union
St. John Ambulance, Association

1¢ Industrial First Aid

The
z Attendants Association of B. C/

Truck Loggers’ Association

‘Workmen's Compensation Board

played a
of British

AND
the revenues tl
forest products
the rapid ine

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people of Britis!
of the populatii
and the indus:

AND TO
inclusive, 1957
Safety Week"
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