Victims Identified In Separate Workplace Fatalities
Prince George, BC – The BC Coroners Service has released the names of the victims of two fatal workplace mishaps that occurred over the past three days.
On Monday, a 41-year-old man was killed in an incident that occurred on a logging cutblock on Vancouver Island. Ryan Geoffrey Burch of Saltspring Island was working as a faller at a logging site on mountainous terrain near Lake Cowichan, when he was struck by a tree. Burch’s death is the eighth fatality in the BC forestry sector this year. (click here, for previous story)
The young man killed in an industrial accident at a manufacturing plant in Salmon Arm yesterday has been identified as 19-year-old Shane Mackenzie Gorner of that community.
The BC Coroners Service and WorkSafe BC continue to investigate both fatalities.
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In 20 years of coastal logging, I saw a few fatalities, which was a truly a disturbing event. When a man died on the sidehill, the rest of us would take the next day off to think about what had happened and the wages from the following day’s work would go the family.
Back then (early ’70’s to early ’90’s) when logging employed far more people than today, 35 to 40 loggers died every year. A third were fallers and truck drivers were the next largest group. Tough job and tougher men . . .
RIP and condolences . . .
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