A14 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, September 28, 1994 Increased logging fatalities CMoncaronow?] prom pts campaign by WCB Gemmas Kitchen Boutique has all the finest J : kitchen wares, offering you the tatest styles, |: colours and designs ‘in everything from A MID-SEPTEMBER accident that claimed the life of a 28-year- old Houston man points to an up- swing in logging industry fatali- ties across the north, a Workers Compensation Board official says. Michael Sworyk dicd afier a log rolled from his logging truck on Owen North forestry road and struck him on the head. “We're. seeing more accidents of this kind,” said WCB vice- president of prevention, Ralph McGinn. There had been a downward trend in fatalitics but. now we're secing an alarming reversal in that number,"’ ; Sworyk, a Houston resident, was sccuring the load on his lag- ging truck when the accident oc- curred. Apparently a snag had fallen off the load and after removing it Sworyk was attempting to re- tighten his wrapper when another log fell down, striking him on the bead. He was pronounced dead on ar- rival at the Houston Health Centre. Logping accidents in B.C. had been on the decrease until last year, McGinn said. After a far-Dung education campaign geared toward buckers and fallers, the WCB started to see lower numbers of bush acci- dents across B.C., he said. From a high of 37 deaths in 1987 the number had dropped to nine logging-related deaths by But last year that number BBS and UNBC open up Internet INTERNET E-mail access is now being provided in Terrace by a lo- cal computer bulletin board oper-* ator. Local accountant Al Sande has arranged an Internet mail feed for users of Sasquatch BBS (Bulletin Board Service). The service is available at no additional charge to registered Sasquatch users, who pay $36 for one year of access to the bulletin board, Sande says a surcharge may be necessary if the Internet mail volume grows beyond what he can afford. “T'd like to Keep it just part of the standard subscription fee.’ The feed comes from the Uni- versity of Northern B.C.’s Prince George campus. Mail to Sasquatch is directed first to UNBC. “They just bold it until my sys- tem calls in and picks up incom- ing messages and sends outgoing messages,’’ he explained. Sande says he heard UNBC had extended Intemet access to some Prince George-area computer bul- lelin boards, and approached them for the same access. “They provided the account free of charge,’* Sande said, ad- ding he has to pay long distance charges for daily phone calls to. Prince George to collect the mail. He noled the service simply gives users an Internet address — it doesn’t give other more ad- vanced levels of access to the In- ternet. The format for Internet mail ad- dressed to Sasquath users is: firstname. lastaame@sasquat.cem The Internet service is in addi- tion to already substantial ser- vices available through the BBS. Sande runs the system of com- puters in his basement. He has about 150 active users and three phone lincs, Sasquatch presenlly includes more than 600 message areas that connect to other computer networks across North America, aud in some cases, overseas. More than one gigabyte of pro- grams and files for IBMs, Macinloshes and Amigas are also available, The system also has three CD-ROM drives. A daily USA Today / Gannett news feed and a twice-daily satel- lite weather image feed are among the other offerings avail- able. A satelite dish in Sande’s front yard pulls down most of the regu- Jar mail and files that Sasqiatch receives, Sande says he's hoping to add another component of the Internct — USEnct news groups —- in the next few weeks. Anyone with a personal coin puter and a modem can dial into Sasquatch BBS al 635-2184. climbed back up to 20. said, And with less than three quarters of the year gone, 1994 has already wracked up 15 log- ging industry fatalities. Concerned, the WCB studied the issue, Last week it released a report pointing to some factors that might be causing the rise in accidents, , Among the findings are that more skidder operators, truck drivers and supervisors are dying. Some reasons this may be hap- pening, McGinn said, is that greater numbers of small com- panies ‘are operating because more harvesting operations are being contracted out. There tends to be a lack of ef- fective supervision and compre- hensive safety . programs and training on such operations, he said, And harvest areas are shrinking too, creating smaller workspaces and more crossover among workers. “Someone may fall for a while, buck up and transport logs, So people are working in areas where their skills may not be as developed,’’ And as timber supply . diminishes in certain areas, log- fers are also spending more time working in steeper terrain, he said, “Weve scen more deaths due Strong demand means loggers frequently work six or seven days a weck, and sometimes people push themselves too much, he said. ‘We believe perhaps people work too long hours and get fatigued. We hear of shifts of 14 to 16 to 18 hours.’’ The report identifies two partic- ular factors at the root of many accidents: @ machine operators are not using seatbelts @ and loggers aren’t being careful on unstable ground, espe- cially after rainfalls, Most of the accidental deaths are occuring in northern B.C., McGinn said, That's understandable, he said, vince’s logging happens up north —~ nevertheless, that area is the target of a WCB information campaign sparked by the upsurge in accidents, A media campaign, consisting of radio spots aimed at workers in small companies, is starting im- mediately, WCB officials are going to make more of an effort to reach smaller operations and beef up on-the-ground training and enfor- cement. More rules and regulations geared toward owners and prime contractors will be announced soon. 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