Posted on 05/09/2017 9:55:14 AM PDT by rey
Aguayo pleaded with him to be safe.
“I will,” Osorio promised.
Those were the last words they spoke. Hours later, Osorio, 22, was dead.
He was killed by a falling log while working as a choke setter, tying cables around trees so they could be pulled up a hill, according to the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office. The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the accident, which occurred off a logging road about 15 miles northeast of Fort Bragg. The exact cause of his death is pending completion of an autopsy report.
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Aguayo didn’t want him to go into logging, didn’t want him working a job that killed her father and an uncle in separate accidents in 2000.
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At least five other relatives have been injured in logging accidents, Aguayo said.
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Osorio had been making about $13.50 an hour working at the two restaurants where he was employed as a busser and a prep cook.
But the entry level rate for logging was better, $18 an hour, Aguayo said. Always a hard worker, Osorio planned to continue working a second job even though Aguayo and others had warned him logging was too physically taxing.
She feels guilty she didn’t do more to stop him from taking the job. Logging jobs are among the most dangerous civilian occupations, regularly ranking at the top in on-the-job deaths per 100,000 workers in the field, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In 2014, it was the No. 1 killer, with 111 deaths per 100,000 loggers. Osorio’s is the only logging death on record for Anderson Logging in last seven years, according to Cal OSHA, which purges its records seven years after investigations are closed.
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He went into a dangerous job because he wanted to be able to financially support his woman.
I knew a guy back in college, who was earning his way doing diving salvage/repair. He had an upper-middle-class girlfriend who he wanted to be able to show a good time. He died at the age of 20.
You ought to “throw chain” on a drilling rig floor. Nothing more dangerous than that!
DH wrote: “You ought to “throw chain” on a drilling rig floor. Nothing more dangerous than that!”
My Dad and my Brother both worked on drilling rigs. My brother did that to work his way through college. I’m thinking though that the guys ‘shooting the wells’ with nitro in a bit more dangerous occupation.
Nah, I was Tail Gunner on a Budweiser delivery truck at KU — that was the most dangerous job of my youth.
Not according to number of people dying. They show logging as #1 and fishing industry workers as #2.
Setting chokers is the entry level job in the logging world.
When I got my first job setting chokers, in the mid 60s, it paid $3.75 an hour. Minimum wage at the time was $1.25. It took less than 20 minutes to show me the basic skills for the job. The big money in logging was in falling timber and bucking logs.
Thanks to the spotted owl and the federal ban on logging in the nationals forests of the Olympic Peninsula and the Cascade Mountains.
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