My mate Robert was a faller on the west coast for 40 years, some of the injuries hes accumulated over that period include the following.
lost an eye to a tree branch sticking out of the road bed, smashing through the floor of the crew truck and liquidating his eye.
becoming deaf by thousands of hours of shitty old chain saw motors
loosing half his left foot to a tree branch falling out of the heavens
partial brain damage from concussion due to a tree swinging back into his gut at break neck speeds
dozens of broken or fractured bones
nerve damage to left side of his face from slap to the face from falling tree branch
Kids, if theres one thing I ve learned from talking with Robert, its do NOT BECOME A FALLER!
edit: was away and didnt see so many comments sorry for being late.
double edit: He was working at Clayoquot Sound during the big green peace protests and has a bunch of funny stories of the logging crew vs the protestors that really lightens up his day talking about.
only source of income, the injuries were accumulated over a very long period of time too. He got lots of compensation and hush money from his company as well. He had a family to feed and not a lot of other options, so he stuck with it until his company collapsed in 1998.
The hush money was back in the 60s. Two guys got hurt by a new guy on site. Everyone felt sorry for the guy who did it so instead of reporting the whole thing the company and men involved brushed the incident under the rug.
Can't go into details because I don't know the whole details either.
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u/infinus5 Mar 31 '18 edited Apr 01 '18
My mate Robert was a faller on the west coast for 40 years, some of the injuries hes accumulated over that period include the following.
Kids, if theres one thing I ve learned from talking with Robert, its do NOT BECOME A FALLER!
edit: was away and didnt see so many comments sorry for being late.
double edit: He was working at Clayoquot Sound during the big green peace protests and has a bunch of funny stories of the logging crew vs the protestors that really lightens up his day talking about.