Recent Examples on the WebThe company can accept usable logs from individuals, but the source is responsible for transporting the logs to the sawmill.—Jill Draper, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024 The prison had a bakery, mechanic, tailor shop, newspaper and sawmill, and prisoners handled the city’s construction projects.—Leila Miller, Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024 As the plots of land sold, brick yards, sawmills, quarries, and other commercial and industrial ventures began to take over.—Patrick C. Salland, Kansas City Star, 24 Jan. 2024 As reflected in its name, the enterprise, founded in 1797 by Andrew and David Shriver Jr., featured a union of two mills: a grist mill and sawmill.—Kevin Dayhoff, Baltimore Sun, 20 Jan. 2024 Green Spaces People had no idea back then what role the little sapling might play beyond the sawmill.—William Booth, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2023 Located inside a former sawmill, the Porsche factory was initially focused on the war effort.—Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 2 Feb. 2024 The teen's death in Mississippi came one month after a fatal accident involving another 16-year-old, who died a few days after getting trapped in a stick stacker machine at a sawmill in Wisconsin.—Kate Gibson, CBS News, 16 Jan. 2024 The Labor Department also found in September that a Wisconsin sawmill operator illegally employed nine minors to operate hazardous machinery to process lumber, including a 16-year-old who died in July of workplace injuries.—Lauren Kaori Gurley, Washington Post, 19 Oct. 2023
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