MOST DANGEROUS WORK IN N.Z.
Bush working is New Zealand’s most dangerous occupation, says “Health,” the official bulletin of the Deoartment oi Health. There are' about 3000 bushworkers employed. In 1947, they had 9 fatal accidents; in 1948, 7, and in 1949, 7. To the nearest decimal place, this works cut at an average rate of 7.7 per year, which is equivalent to an. annual death rate per million of 2500 approximately.. Skill in bush working is very closely associated with safety. Besides having to learn skills in such matters as axe work, the siting of a scarf, and the mechanics of the ’movement of heavy bodies, the bush worker has to acquire a highly sensitive response to what he can see and hear. There is a multitude of things he must notice if he is not to run into danger.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1950, Page 7
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141MOST DANGEROUS WORK IN N.Z. Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1950, Page 7
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