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Death of Fort Bragg man is third logging tragedy for his fiancee
Press Democrat ^ | 9 May 2017

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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Sad story but what are the odds. What the article doesn't say is that death rates are nearly double what they were in previous years (64 in 2012). Is this due to an influx in immigrant labor? Is it the lack of logging activity resulting in less skilled and practiced workers?

As usual, the article misses a lot.

I thought the company was reasonably generous in paying out to her as she was only a fiance and not his wife (perhaps the payment is to his daughter) and paying for funeral expenses, something I seldom hear of.

1 posted on 05/09/2017 9:55:15 AM PDT by rey
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To: rey

One of my brushes with death was working as chain man to hook up logs to be pulled to clear a power line.

Spent a week in the hospital.


2 posted on 05/09/2017 9:58:43 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: rey

Watch the movie SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION.


3 posted on 05/09/2017 10:02:02 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

Yep, that’s a good movie.


4 posted on 05/09/2017 10:04:29 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: rey

Something to ponder next time you pick up some 2x4 lumber at the yard. Brave men in this industry. I worked a lot in younger years in sawmills and pulp mills. Lots of danger there, too. There’s nothing like losing control of black liquor boiler smelt chemistry. It sounds like hand grenades going off in the smelt tank.


5 posted on 05/09/2017 10:05:35 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: blueunicorn6

That was the first movie HBO showed.


6 posted on 05/09/2017 10:12:20 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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To: blueunicorn6

In the Northwest, the timber industry used to be a place where a young guy could make good money without having to go to college.

The timber industry is just about gone from there now.


7 posted on 05/09/2017 10:13:05 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Yep.

My Dad worked at pulp mills.

They had one fatality or crippling injury per year out of about 300 guys.


8 posted on 05/09/2017 10:16:02 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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The California Occupational Safety and Health Administration is investigating the accident, which occurred off a logging road about 15 miles northeast of Fort Bragg.

Ummm...isn't Fort Bragg in NC? Why is The California OSHA investigating?

9 posted on 05/09/2017 10:18:21 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Good judgement comes from experience. And experience? Well, that comes from poor judgement.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

I watched it again several months ago. It was unedited and showed the Dad’s arm.

Makes my stomach churn to watch it because I grew up with people like that.


10 posted on 05/09/2017 10:19:57 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

There is also a Fort Bragg in California.


11 posted on 05/09/2017 10:20:04 AM PDT by Publius ("Who is John Galt?" by Billthedrill and Publius available at Amazon.)
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To: blueunicorn6

My gramps had a logging tug boat on the Klamath river back in the early 50’s.


12 posted on 05/09/2017 10:23:39 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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To: rey

Logging is one of the most dangerous jobs there is. FAR more dangerous than cop or firefighter, with much worse pay.

Fort Bragg is a beautiful area, hoping to retire to there.


13 posted on 05/09/2017 10:24:44 AM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Did you live in Longview?


14 posted on 05/09/2017 10:37:07 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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Nope. Humboldt county all my life.


15 posted on 05/09/2017 10:39:48 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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Nope. They moved it:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Fort+Bragg,+CA+95437/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x80803553c502486f:0xd285848a37ac9cdf?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjR18WDruPTAhUHhlQKHVwQDXoQ8gEIgwEwCw


16 posted on 05/09/2017 10:42:06 AM PDT by rey
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$18 an hour for a logger? What’s that after taxes? 10 bucks an hour?? Good grief!

Those people are being robbed...


17 posted on 05/09/2017 10:43:18 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: blueunicorn6
Watch the movie SOMETIMES A GREAT NOTION.
Lee Remick alone makes it very watchable.
18 posted on 05/09/2017 10:47:11 AM PDT by lewislynn
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

Pretty country.

I mixed up the Klamath and Cowlitz rivers.

I have like geography dyslexia.

“Please go up and point out Kentucky on the map.”

“Ummmmmm.....here?”

“No, that is California.”

“So my cousin in Lexington is lying when he tells me he goes surfing all the time?”


19 posted on 05/09/2017 10:53:13 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: blueunicorn6

LOL


20 posted on 05/09/2017 10:55:29 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (Willie Sutton went into robbing banks and Hillary Clinton went into politics)
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