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Good points. Technically the crab boat guys have the highest death rate but the tree guys are a close second.
It's going to depend on how they are tabulated, I know for the occupation of miner it's actually quite low. It's when they look at the industry as whole and include specific occupations like heavy equipment operator which has a high death rate no matter what industry.
They have logging listed as number one but for fishing it's labeled "Fishers and related fishing workers" so that's open as to what they are including e.g. might be including people in packing plants. See page 19.
In the video posted by Three Wolves the machine operators all stand off to the side of the chipper, so then I looked up OSHA training videos where it stated that standing off at the side where the controls are operated is safety protocol for woodchippers, meaning the operators are not to be located at the opening of the chipper where tree limbs are placed and fed into the machine.
When I worked for the Maine DOT our chipper was always manned by an operator, that could reverse the infeed if anything went wrong. No chipper should be operated without a person with there hands on the reverser.
We've all done stupid things when we were 19, many of which were near fatal when you look back honestly. I know I did. Like the time I called Mike Tyson a pansy. . . .and ran away real quick.
OBVIOUSLY the owner has and is putting profit ahead of worker safety .. IF the remainder of the employees are anything but hill-rods they will be hired by any number of other companies in the area.. If they are just reckless dummkopfs , employment wont be for long..
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Ya.... Innocent ppl suffering because others dont care anymore and thats sad!!!
I'm sure it depends on the situation. Maybe 10'years ago an experienced guy had the same thing happen to him. He was feeding the chipper and the rest of the crew was doing something else. According to the reports, They came back to the chipper and did not see the guy, then as they walked around back of the truck "it became obvious what had happened". So assume he went all the way though. Man, talk about a horrible feeling.
I assume in this case, the throat of the machine was not sufficient for him to be pulled all the way in.
I read that the crew went to the chipper when they heard it struggling, and the victim actually died from a heart attack. So....you are correct, it clogged. I hope it was fast, and I hope the other people on the job didn't have to see too much. I can't even imagine.
First day on the job. I wonder how he was trained if at all.
Shame. Was not a slow death.
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The headline is inflammatory. The kid was nineteen and an adult, not some 16 year old school kid.
Mircea - How is the headline inflammatory??? Seems pretty exact to me.
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