According to recent federal data, workers in the logging industry are roughly 33 times more likely to die from a workplace injury compared to those in other civilian occupations. In Oregon, the ...

COOS BAY, Ore. — Mostly employed in densely forested pockets of the Pacific Northwest and the South, loggers have the highest rate of fatal on-the-job injuries of any civilian occupation in the nation ...

For decades, it seemed like Oregon’s south coast city of Coos Bay couldn’t catch a break — at least not economically. The timber industry mostly fled, taking hundreds if not thousands of jobs with it.

A Coos Bay logger is in good condition this morning after being struck in the back by a yarder cable during a logging operation near the north fork of Lower Smith River Road in Reedsport. According to ...