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Article: `Full steam ahead' for new lumber plant.(Business)(But the outcome for the hundreds of workers displaced by last year's Murphy Plywood fire has varied)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- July 15, 2006
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Byline: Karen McCowan The Register-Guard
SUTHERLIN MILL
SUTHERLIN - Longtime millworker Steven John still has nightmares about the morning a little over a year ago when he saw a dryer motor catch fire while he was grading veneer at the Murphy Plywood plant. He blew the whistle to summon the mill's internal fire brigade and grabbed a nearby water hose. But before he could use it, "the motor just exploded."
"The flames went all the way to the ceiling, probably 20 feet high, and came rolling right at me," John recalled this week. Thanks to the plant's automatic sprinklers and water sprayed by his co-workers, John escaped the July 5, 2005, fire ...