In the lumber industry, productivity demands are staggering; output is often measured in lugs per minute, a unit that describes how quickly a machine In the lumber industry, productivity demands are ...
MIDLAND — The wood-planing machines at the Opco Inc. mill in Midland are noisy, but neighbor Leona Turosik, 86, doesn’t mind — especially now that the mill might close. “Keep it goin’,” she said, ...
About 40 workers at the Vaagen Bros. Lumber mill in Colville were sent home Thursday after a fire in the mill’s turbine and electrical equipment disabled operations. Russ Vaagen, the plant’s vice ...
GASTON, Ore. -- A 60-year-old ForestGrove man died and two others were injured in an explosion at Stimson Lumber Company in Gaston, south of Forest Grove. A six-foot-tall hydraulic accumulator machine ...
PHENIX CITY, Ala. (WTVM) - A Phenix City man is dead after going to inspect a machine malfunction at a lumber mill in Phenix City. WARNING: Some details in this story may be considered graphic for ...
For nearly a century, Washington’s timber industry produced everything from paper and two-by-fours to the massive wood beams that hold up the Tacoma Dome. Lumber mills were the backbone of logging ...