Industrial Explosion at Port Gamble Mill
A boiler rupture at the Kitsap County lumber mill leaves an engineer severely scalded, highlighting the physical dangers of the region's dominant timber industry.
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A boiler in the mill at Port Gamble exploded this morning, severely scalding an engineer.
John Peterson suffered a broken leg by a falling timber on the Port Gamble wharf this morning.
“A boiler in the mill at Port Gamble exploded this morning. Engineer Eric Iversen was severely scalded.”
In the late 19th century, Puget Sound was dominated by the brutal, high-risk labor of the timber mills. Today's industrial safety standards are a direct result of these decades of workers pushing for protections in high-stakes environments like the historic Port Gamble mill.
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