According to recent federal data, workers in the logging industry are roughly 33 times more likely to die from a workplace injury compared to those in other civilian occupations. In Oregon, the ...

While many of us believe we are giving too much of ourselves — our time, mental exertion and personal freedoms — to our jobs, we likely have it better than workers in riskier career fields. In fact, ...

GASTON COUNTY, N.C. — A logger died in an accident this Friday morning in Gaston County. The logging crew was cutting down trees around 9 a.m. in a wooded area on Blacksnake Road near Chestnut Street ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Recently, a timber harvesting operation in Brunswick on behalf of a ...

VERNONIA, Ore. -- Since the days before Oregon was a state, loggers have trudged into the hills to cut trees. In the 1950's, 90,000 Oregonians worked in the logging industry. Shouts of Timber! are ...

As the Inquirer editorial pointed out yesterday, the floods and landslides were the result of massive deforestation. It was the Filipino loggers, not the Spanish and American colonizers, who did this.

The logger, 24, was working near the Gauley River in the Jerryville area when the accident occurred. A statement came from Gov. Justice’s office Thursday night: “Cathy and I want to express our ...

Aaron Williams writes about coastal logging, with its massive trees, machines that could level a house in one scoop and its characters — rough, funny, sometimes tragic You can save this article by ...

"It's a tough job but someone's got to do it" – that's the kind of thing you'd expect a burly cop or firefighter to say. But in terms of workplace hazards, firefighters and police officers are ...

When Tim Polasek got the call, the thermometer read 15 degrees. That was considered a warm day, but Polasek wanted to get in his truck and turn the heat on. The yellow Nokia phone rang. Polasek didn’t ...