Sawmill Worker, photograph by Joseph Leighton, ca. 1910. Maine State Museum. Gift of the Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Society, 91.26.73.
Sawmill Worker, photograph by Joseph Leighton, ca. 1910. Maine State Museum. Gift of the Lincoln County Cultural and Historical Society, 91.26.73.
Sawmills frequently lined the rivers to receive logs being transported from the woods. Woods workers included men laboring in sawmills and shops making small wood products, such as broomsticks, ax handles, and toothpicks. Much of the wood was cut from logs to board lumber.
Sawmill workers shared the risks and benefits of other workers in the lumber industry. Ten percent of Maine's work-related injuries in 1910 were caused by woodworking machinery in mills.