Why are so many loggers dying?

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As loggers' deaths in the province mount at near double the rate of recent years, the BC Coroners Service is facing criticism over its refusal to conduct inquests into the lethal mishaps.

The pressure comes from two sources. The United Steelworkers, through its locals within the logging, sawmilling and pulp-and-paper industries, is demanding mandatory coroners' inquests into every logger-related fatality, more timely investigations of workplace facilities and serious accidents and the creation of committees with full authority to "order immediate workplace changes in response to fatality investigations and inquests."

Meanwhile, a group of anonymous current and former coroners have written to the BC government charging that the service is failing in its mission. The Committee for Competent Death Reviews wrote a scathing reminder that the Coroners Service is meant to help prevent repeat fatal accidents in the workplace through inquiries, inquests and reports containing recommendations for changes
http://www.thetyee.ca/News/2005/12/09/LoggingDeathInquest/


I am thinking the same reason 700 childerns death were not investigated :? :? Greedy low life campbell.
 
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I grew up in a little town where logging was the main industry. I seems to me that tree felling has always been one of the most dangerous jobs. In the following link, case no. 4 was my nephew.


http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/logging.html
 
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RE: Why are so many logge

Deaths due to unsafe working conditions tend to go up when an industry is under pressure. Workers are afraid of losing their jobs so they don't report things they normally would and take chances they normally would not.

Put a situation like that into a high-risk profession like logging and there's bound to be a rise in accidents, including fatalities. Mix in a government that doesn't care what happens to people as long as the money keeps flowing, and the increase will be even steeper.
 
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Logging is a dangerous job because most often, loggers don't take the time to make it safer. Loggers often fall a large tree without clearing the scrub brush from around it. Trees don't always fall according to plan and the tree faller has to go through an obstacle course to get to safety. The almighty dollar is probably the main culprit. Time is money and making the job safer takes time. The rise in fatalities recently could be because there are more people and more inexperienced people in the industry. The death rate is self feeding in a way because the more people that are killed or injured, the more less experienced people are brought in to replace them. My nephew died because he took his eyes off the tree before it was safely on the ground.


http://www.askmen.com/toys/top_10/16b_top_10_list.html
 
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