Pacific Lumber Contract Worker Killed

Eureka, CA - A fifty-one year-old contract worker for the Pacific Lumber Company was killed this morning on a steep and windy logging road when the water truck he was driving rolled over, partially ejecting him from the vehicle. The victim, whose name is so far being withheld, was a worker for Columbia Helicopters, an Oregon based company, which conducts year-round logging and yarding for Pacific Lumber.

Details of the accident were not easily forth coming due to the remoteness of the accident site, some seven miles past the nearest entrance gate onto Pacific Lumber property Southwest of Scotia. Estelle Fennell of KMUD interviewed Columbia Helicopter’s vice president of safety, who was getting the information second hand. They do know, however, that the water truck was full, carrying approximately 4,000 gallons of water, and that the victim was not wearing a seat belt.