B.C. LUMBER WORKER

LOCAL 1-367, IWA, Safety Director, Harry Beamer, who is also one of the top First Aid men in Bri

in the Camp Committee room of the Harrison Mills Logging Operation of Cana-
dion Forest Products Limited, demonstratin

Columbia, is shown her

workmen who work on or near water.

g the proper method of wearing the life jackets now used by oll

Helpful

trucker
at fault

The Minnesota Supreme
Court recently upheld a lower
court decision which held a
trucking company liable for
$58,000 in damages resulting
from a head-on collision be-
tween two passenger cars which
occurred after the trucker sig-
nalled one of the motorists to
pass.

The decision was based on the
old legal principle that when an
individual acts in a situation in
which he has no duty to act, he
assumes the same responsibility
as if he had a duty to act. He
thereby makes himself liable for
negligence. The same principle
could apply in many traffic situ-
ations such as: stopping to offer
help to a stalled motorist, tow-
ing or pushing a distressed veh-
icle, giving a stranded individual
a lift

DANGER OF WEARING RINGS around machinery was brought
painfully home to carrier driver George Robbins recently. George,
employed by the Western Lumber Carriers Company, lost the third
finger of his left hand when the ring he was wearing became caught
on the carrier's curtain fastener, while he was jumping from tho

carrier. George is shown in the above picture examining the remains
of his ring.

Loggers compensated
for odd accidents

“While attempting to retrieve lunch from bear I ran into the
limb of a tree and injured my chest,” reported a B.C. logger some
years ago. A workman stepped over a log and was bitten by a
rattlesnake. Another workman was attacked by a cougar.

These are just several incidents where workmen have been
financially protected by compensation after being attacked by ani-
mals in the wilds of B.C. True, these occurrences are not com-
mon but it proves that when workmen are in the vicinity of wild
animals they should always be on guard. Maybe that friendly
old bear who comes around the camp regularly isn’t so friendly
after all . . . remember, he packs a wallop that can break your
neck,

MAN DIED.,

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Occupation — Chokerman.

Age — 35 years.

Experience — 5 years,

The Superintendent and the hooktender were pulling slack
in a skyline with the haulback close to the home tree, in prepara-
tion to taking a new tail hold with the skyline.

Three chokermen were left at the cold deck and instructed
to get in the clear as they were in the bight of the siwashed haul-
back.

When the Engineer went ahead on the haulback, on signal,
and the line tightened, it straightened and struck a chokerman
who had seated himself high on the cold deck and in the bight.

He was killed instantly.

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