Former east approach to the trestle
Photo taken by Nathan Morton in January 2007
BH Photo #137083
Until the OSHA and state OSHA agencies were established and started getting really tough, companies that mandated even basic safety provisions typically would have serious problems getting workers. Just getting workers to wear hardhats was an uphill battle.
My Dad had a woodworking company back in the 1940s. The workers would take the guards off of the saws, drills, shapers, planers. He would have a worker reinstall the guards at the end of the day. He said that when he required a worker to use protective gear that they would walk off of the job, so he pretty much gave up. Most were missing fingers, thumbs, an eye, had scars.
April 1999.