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| 1854 | 3 |
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| 1864 | 4 |
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| 1893 | 132 |
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1,402 stories matching saw
- A Claim to the Shingle Throne
A Ballard man challenges the history books, asserting he invented the sawed shingle in King County in 1874.
- A Circular Saw, a Jammed Board, and a Mill Hand's Narrow Escape
L. C. Grimmel lost a finger and nearly his whole hand at Johnson & Co.'s mill when a stuck board freed the saw without warning.
- Miracle at the Buzz Saw
A worker falls onto a moving saw, narrowly avoiding a fatal arterial wound.
- Sawed in Two: A Young Mill Worker’s Death at Sidney
Albert Dahlager slipped against the rotary saws at Wilson Bros.’ mill in Kitsap County, leaving a widowed mother without support.
- The Saw That Conquered the Snohomish Timber Frontier
Before high-tech machinery, local loggers relied on the 'Silver Steel' saw, a tool marketed as the most efficient way to fell the giants of Washington Territory.
- A Circular Saw Opened His Skull. He Is Still Answering Questions.
A week after a circular saw tore into his head, Stetson remains lucid in Seattle, and his doctor says the wound shows no inflammation.
- A Steam-Powered Solution for Aberdeen’s Winter Fuel Needs
As Aberdeen grew into a bustling timber town, J. B. Haynes introduced a steam-powered saw to streamline the labor of residential wood-splitting.
- The Noise Next Door
A city delegate pushes back against proposed ordinances intended to silence wood-sawing machines near homes.
- A Saw’s Deadly Snap: A Local Man’s Leg Shattered by a Flying Blade
In a grim reminder of the dangers inherent to Aberdeen’s booming timber industry, A.J. Fields suffered a compound fracture of the femur when machinery at Karr’s new mill exploded in violence last Friday.
- Industrial Horror at the Shingle Mill
A worker suffers a horrific injury after a bolt falls from an elevator, pinning him against the saw.
- The Jailbreak Tools Hidden in the Steel
A search of the county jail reveals two hack saws and a DIY heating lamp hidden in the structural pipework, intended for a prisoner's escape.
- Fatal Mill Accident at Alder
A Japanese mill worker is killed instantly after an accidental encounter with a spinning circular saw.
- The Sawmill Trap
A local mill worker shares a harrowing account of surviving a near-fatal workplace injury.
- A Close Call at the Buffalo Shingle Mill
A mill worker is lucky to keep his arm after a terrifying accident with a shingle saw.
- Sailor Jack Escapes City Jail Through Sawed Window
A prisoner known as 'Sailor Jack' saws through the bars of his cell and vanishes, leaving a gaping hole behind.
- The Jailbreak That Failed at Lake Union
A failed escape attempt by three young prisoners leaves a jailer with a gun, a missing saw, and a mystery about who was smuggling tools to the jailbirds.
- A Saw Blade, a Slipped Foot, and a Surgeon's Race to Save a Worker's Arm
A worker's foot slipped against a circular saw, severing the artery and nerve in his right arm; doctors ligated the artery and stitched the nerve.
- The Great Seattle Saw-Mill Lottery
A frontier town turns to state-sanctioned gambling as a desperate economic strategy to boost local development.
- The Mystery of the Apple-Boring Wasp
An entomologist from Pullman descends on Lynden to investigate a bizarre fruit-eating worm that defies known science.
- The Great Jailbreak Attempt of 1888
A desperate group of prisoners, including a local forger and a pair of Vancouver burglars, came within thirty minutes of freedom before being thwarted by a vigilant guard.
- The Price of a Moment’s Forgetfulness at the Mill
After finishing his shift at the Tacoma mill, a worker suffered a horrific injury when he walked into the path of a circular saw.
- The Great Seattle Saw-Mill Gamble
When the city's leading industry, the Yesler Mill, was placed into a grand lottery to boost the local economy and resolve debt, it sparked a frontier frenzy of ticket-buying.
- The Shingle Mill Accident That Shook Lynden
After a local mill worker suffered a permanent injury, the community and an official inspector weigh in on industrial safety.
- A Circular Saw Opened His Skull—and He Stayed Conscious
At the Stetson Post Mill on Commercial Street, engineer Horatio Stetson crawled under a rip-saw table to fix a belt. The saw caught his head, cutting through bone and into his brain, yet he never lost consciousness.
- A Sawmill Worker’s Leg Was Cut Off. His Boss’s Quick Thinking Saved Him.
At a mill near Auburn, Edward McKeown lost a leg to a circular saw. W. M. Rodgers’s makeshift tourniquet and a hurried call for doctors kept him alive.