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:: Wednesday, March 17, 2004 ::
Logging still hazardous, but technology lessens the risks By DIANE DIETZ, KATU 2
The logging fatality rate, which fell dramatically from the early 1900s, when 200 would die in the Oregon woods each year, has skidded into the single digits in the past two decades - and that's largely credited to mechanical harvesting.
To keep this in perspective, logging is still the most dangerous occupation nationally, based on fatality rates, said John Garland, forest engineering professor at Oregon State University.
But Garland, who testifies in logging accident lawsuits across the country, said the numbers are skewed by the Southeast, where the fatalities in the woods are concentrated.
That region hasn't had the same safety revolution as the Northwest, he said. Also, the Northwest still has plenty of hand fellers - who continue to face the old dangers - because the mechanical harvesters can't operate on especially steep slopes.------------------------------------------- posted 7:25 AM :: reference link ::
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