Hazards in logging
PA Wellington I • a Forestry and logging — Jvhich employ about 7000 avorkers in New Zealand — ■claimed 11 lives in the year Tn March 31, 1976, and ranks as one of the most dangerous industries covered by Department of Labour legislation. ;.Of the 11 killed, nine died as a result of being struck! by failing trees or logs, ac-l cording to the annual report ■ of the department. ' This is about one death per 63* workers. *’ In the building and con-! siruction field, there were 28 j fatal accidents in a workforce of abobt 70,000 —about one fatality per 2500. Eight lives were claimed in factory accidents, and - two people, one a four-year-old boy. were killed in :
Itnachinery mishaps. The factory deaths represent one (fatality per 33.700 workers, in a labour force of 270,000.
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Press, 15 September 1976, Page 2
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