Family Stories of Threads

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1 The following is a chronological index of family stories to appear in Threads newsletter. The index is in reverse chronological order from the Fall 2013 edition to Fall Surviving with daily pain: Simple Tendinitis changed my life Follow Your Dreams - Evan s Story: Evan Horkoff chose a career that would allow him to help people The guy everyone wanted to be around: Luke Penny dies in trench collapse Five minutes for the world to crumble: Blaine Drew: Wonderful man with a huge heart, killed in 18-foot fall Missing him every day: Tommy Raymond s family struggles after his death on a container pier Living after loss A widow s story: Master tradesman Robert Gormley leaves legacy of joy and fierce determination Lisa Shirley Evan Horkoff Luke Penny Blaine Drew Tommy Raymond Robert Gormley Life-altering injury: A young mother s diagnosis of Simple Tendinitis suddenly develops into Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) a chronic systemic disease characterized by severe pain, swelling, and changes in the skin. Fatality: An apprentice powerline technician dies from the injuries he sustained while working in Crow s Nest Pass, AB, when the transmission pole he was harnessed to collapsed, taking him down the hill. Fatality: Young man working for basement water-proofing company killed in trenching collapse. Fatality: While working with his brother to put up new rafters in a barn in Val Marie, SK, Blaine fell 18-ft. He died of crush injuries to his heart and lungs following the long ambulance trip from the remote area to Swift Current. Fatality: foreman falls under a tractor trailer and is killed when the driver starts up and pulls out without performing a circle check. Occupational disease: Master tradesman (welder) dies from mesothelioma from exposure to asbestos. Service industry, food preparation Utilities, fall, electrical / line work SK Fall 2013 AB Fall 2013 Construction, trenching ON Summer 2013 Construction, fall, working in remote areas Shipping dock, transportation SK Summer 2013 NS Spring 2013 Construction (Welding) ON Spring P age

2 In memory of Kent Cousineau : Family raises funds and awareness to honour firefighter s memory Finding a new respect for life: Injured worker Donna Green copes with life after a debilitating injury A Widow s story Pete Szabo, part of a road crew, was electrocuted on the job All about Bob: Bob King, who lobbied hard for better safety, became the company s first fatality The Young Man and the Sea: Lobster fishermen, the Blackburns, are remembered Afraid of Heights: A painter falls into the Detroit River from the Ambassador Bridge A Forestry Logging Claims the Life of Family Man Craig Payne Kent Cousineau Donna Green Pete Szabo Bob King Gerry and Gerald Blackburn Jamie Barker Craig Payne Fatality: crew leader engulfed in flames during a training exercise Life-altering injury: young mother is unable to return to work following severe back injury Fatality: crew member exiting their vehicle is electrocuted when dump truck comes in contact with overhead wire Fatality: worker is crushed between furnace hood and the extended lip of a charger car delivering scrap metal to the furnaces. Fatality: Father and son lobster fishermen drown Fatality: worker drowns when scaffolding collapses while working on bridge over Detroit River Fatality: Worker dies in head on collision on dangerous logging road Go West Young Man Jonathan Audit Fatality: Worker dies from suffocation during a well testing 15 Year-Old Andrew James Loved His Day Job The Legacy of Asbestos (Guest ) Firefighting, natural resources, forestry Health care, nursing, patient lifting, back injury, Road crew, overhead utility lines, traffic control ON Winter 2012 NS Winter 2012 ON Fall 2012 Foundry, traffic control ON Fall 2012 Lobster fishing, ocean fisherman, drowning Construction, fall, scaffolding, drowning Trucking, logging / resource roads, road safety Oil patch, lone worker, Andrew James Fatality: worker buried under hot asphalt Road construction, paving, Fatality: a senior citizen mother dies from exposure to asbestos fibres left on her husband s clothes Factory worker, asbestos, contaminated work clothes NS Summer 2012 ON Summer 2012 BC Spring 2012 AB Spring 2012 MB Winter 2011 N/A Winter P age

3 A Pilot s Dream Cut Short A Young Widow s Perspective Coal Mining Was a Way of Life Dad s Choice that Day Cost Our Family Dearly Safety Goes Both Ways: The Employer and Employee A Perfect Storm in The Oil Patch Takes a Young Life One Step At A Time The Road To Recovery A Split-Rim Tire Explosion Changes One Family Forever My Fifth Christmas Without Him Ten Minutes Can Last a Lifetime How Does Your Garden Grow? My Life Before and After My Injury Remembering My Nephew Luke MacIver Highway Maintenance Worker Struck Down Robert Buchanan Gordon Wadden Stan Preece Amber Hiuser Dustin Cadrain Kevin Bonnis Ken Skjonsby Fatality: a bush pilot dies in BC Transportation, pilot BC Fall 2011 Occupational disease: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) Fatality: a father was hit with a backhoe while digging a cistern on the family farm Life-altering injury: a worker s fingers were cut off while working on a CNC machine Fatality: a worker crushed between a boom and a pipe Life-altering injury: a scrap paper milling machine cut off 90% of a worker s feet Life-altering injury: a tire explosion severely injures a retired worker Coal mining, dust exposure NS Fall 2011 Construction, farm, heavy equipment Manufacturing, mills, lathes, Oil patch,, rigging Lockout/Tagout, industrial millwright Tire explosion, snow plow truck, head injury Micheal Fisher Fatality: roofer slips off a ladder Construction, roofing, fall, Fabien Guindon Eddie Dobroski Stephen Forde Luke MacIver Marlene Rauhut-Lucu Fatality: worker dies in a trench collapse Occupational disease from exposure to chemicals that later resulted in death Life-altering injury: worker's spine crushed by a skid of paper weighing 3,200 lbs. Fatality: worker buried under load of garbage at a recycling plant (BC) Fatality: a highway maintenance worker was hit by a truck Missing My Eric Eric Helgeson Fatality: a worker is crushed while working in construction The Whistle of the Train Calls All Aboard AB Summer 2011 ON Summer 2011 AB Spring 2011 ON Spring 2011 ON Winter 2010 ON Winter 2010 Construction, trench QC Fall 2010 collapse Chemical plant ON Fall 2010 Material handling, crushing injury Recycling plant, young worker, lone worker Road crew, emergency worker, driver safety House building, construction, crane Brent Wade Fatality: worker dies on the train tracks Construction, road safety, train crossing NS Summer 2010 BC Summer 2010 AB Spring 2010 MB Spring 2010 ON Winter P age

4 Another Christmas Without You Lewis D Entremont Lost at Sea A Fishing Claims The Life Of Young Burton Reimer Losing My Father Meant I Lost a Piece Of Myself The Dad We Knew Changed the Day He Was Injured Losing My Brother Changed Me in Ways You Can t Imagine A Life-Altering Injury Changed My Family Forever One Family s and Journey of Healing Lending Our Support to Other Families of Workplace Keeping My Son s Memory Alive Jim Scallion Lewis D Entremont Burton Reimer Robert Nesbitt Fraser Murdoch Micheal Fisher Larry MacKay Tim Hickman Karl Stunt Occupational disease: worker dies of mesothelioma after years of exposure to asbestos working at a dock yard Fatality: a fisherman is flung overboard while purse seining fishing Fatality: a worker drowned while working on his first day for a local commercial fisherman Fatality: a miner was crushed by a piece of equipment Life-altering injury: worker injured when he was pinned by a cement mixer Fatality: roofer slips and falls sustaining a head injury and subsequent death Life-altering injury: a worker receives a bandsaw injury Fatality: worker was injured while operating an ice-resurfacer for an arena; he later died from his injuries Fatality: a worker dies working as a maintenance worker on a ski resort Greg Wheeler Fatality: worker falls when manlift he and a coworker were in topples backwards throwing them only the rocks below Black Friday Jim Dahmer Occupational disease: Worker exposed From to Prevention Jim Sandford Jr. to asbestos living with mesothelioma Fatality: an elevator mechanic falls to his death Shipyard NS Winter 2009 purse seinging, ocean fisherman, drowning Fisheries,, drowning NS Fall 2009 MB Fall 2009 Mining, heavy equipment, ON Summer 2009 crushing injury construction, crushing injury ON Summer 2009 Construction, roofing, fall, ON Spring 2009 Guarding, carpentry NS Winter 2008 Explosion, lone worker, ON Fall 2008: Special 5 th year anniversary edition Fall, ON Spring 2008 Fall, manlift NWT Winter 2007 Industrial ON Fall 2007 Construction, fall ON Summer P age

5 Work Safe: Guard Your Future The Legacy of My Father s Working to Prevent Another Summer Job Was a Death Sentence Dwight Peel - Forever Loved, Remembered and Cherished Living With a Life-Altering Injury The Story of Mark Aposotoliuk The Story of Kenneth O Flaherty and Family in Newfoundland Frank and Fatalities: a brother and father were killed Confined space, explosion ON Spring 2007 Gavin Juhasz during a confined space explosion Nicholas Life-altering injury: a painter falls, Painter, construction, ON Winter 2006 Tountas sustaining a head injury scaffolding, head injury Lewis Life-altering injury: worker suffers Forestry, arboriculture, ON Fall 2006 Wheelan severe electrical burns at summer job and utility lines, dies from injuries two years later Bob Auger Occupational disease: exposure to Asbestos,, ON Summer 2006 asbestos as a teenager leads to death mesothelioma from mesothelioma more than 30 years later Dwight Peel Fatality: worker dies from a tire explosion Auto mechanic, tire AB Spring 2006 explosion, Jim Thompson Mark Aposotoliuk Kenneth O Flaherty Life-altering injury: an hydro worker sustains severe internal electrical burns from high voltage line Fatality: worker dies while operating a skidder Fatality: worker falls off a ladder while working on an high-rise building Utility lines, high voltage, lineman Resource sector, forestry, heavy equipment, young worker Construction, fall, young worker Ten Years: One Reason Sean Kells Fatality: a worker dies from an explosion Chemical safety, explosion, A Visit from My Angel Burton Reimer Fatality: a worker drowned while working Fisheries,, on his first day for a local commercial drowning fisherman (MB) Safer Roads for Construction Workers Dick Van Rooyen Fatality: road construction supervisor dies when struck by driver who fell asleep at the wheel (ON) Road construction, driver safety ON Winter 2005 BC Fall 2005 New Summer 2005 York, US (NL family) ON Spring 2005 MB Winter 2004 ON Fall P age