Mill Accident Claims Sawyer’s Leg
A young sawmill worker undergoes an emergency amputation after being crushed by mill machinery in Cosmopolis.
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Drs. Stapp and Pearson were called to Cosmopolis Tuesday morning to attend Robt. J. Lowrey, a young man 26 years of age, whose right leg had been crushed below the knee by the carriage in the Grays Harbor Commercial Co.'s mill. Lowrey was brought to the St. Joseph's hospital here, and the leg amputated just above the knee. The patient is gaining strength rapidly. He was a sawyer in the company's mill, and is a single man and a native of Canada.
“Lowrey was brought to the St. Joseph's hospital here, and the leg amputated just above the knee.”
Workplace injuries were a brutal, routine hazard of the timber economy that built Grays Harbor. While modern OSHA regulations have drastically reduced such industrial catastrophes, the vulnerability of the lone worker remains a central thread in the Pacific Northwest's labor history.
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