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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

EUGENE, Ore. -- As the sun breaks over west Eugene, Scott Melcher is gearing up for another day on the hill. He's a third generation logger and works for the same timber company his grandfather ...

A third-generation Cathlamet logger was killed on the job Friday while logging across the river in Clatsop County - the second on-the-job fatality his family has suffered in nine months.

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.

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 ...