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.
Yep.
My Dad worked at pulp mills.
They had one fatality or crippling injury per year out of about 300 guys.