Tree surgeons

Tupperware was the idea of Earl Silas Tupper, a New Hampshire tree surgeon and plastics innovator. He began experimenting with PE during the early part of World War II. In 1947, he designed and patented the famous Tupper seal that sealed in freshness. In order to close the container it had to be burped to remove air. Tupperware was also bug proof, spill proof, did not rot or rust, and did not break when dropped. Even with all of these advantages, few were sold. Enter Brownie Wise, a divorced single mother from Detroit who desperately needed to supplement her income as a secretary, who had the idea of Tupperware Parties. ... 

However, in all the stories, the operatives positioned and labelled their violations, for a variety of different reasons, to be not right in the wider construction of correct work methods and safe behaviours. Only in one case study (that of the tree surgeon) were the labels of risk, dangerous or unsafe used by an operative to describe their actions in that instance. What are deemed as risktaking behaviours by some, such as site management, are simply constructed by operatives as just part of the work risk is simply not part of their lexicon of safety. 

Wyatt Duzenbury, thirty-two, a former Michigan tree surgeon who thought the bomb looked like a tree trunk. An eleventh member of the crew, 2nd Lieutenant Morris Jeppson, an ordnance expert, would assist Deke Parsons in arming and monitoring Little Boy. Parsons, the twelfth man, resisted photographing but was fl)ring the mission as weaponeer. 

Satulsky EM, Wirts CA (1943) Dermatitis venenata caused by the manzanillo tree. Arch Dermatol Syphilol 47 797-798 Oliwiecki S, Beck MH, Hausen BM (1992) Occupational allergic contact dermatitis from caffeates in poplar bud resin in a tree surgeon. Contact Dermatitis 27 127-128 Knight TE, Boll P, Epstein WL, Prasad AK (1996) Resorcinols and catechols a clinical study of cross sensitivity. Am J Contact Dermat 7 138-145... 

Oliwiecki S, Beck MH, Hausen BM (1992) Occupational contact dermatitis from caffeates in poplar bud resin in a tree surgeon. Contact Dermatitis 27 127-128... 

Others, however, clearly did use botanical subsitutes. Through interviews with aged Confederate surgeons, Joseph Jacobs was able to present a valuable picture of dmg conditions in the South during the war and how they coped with shortages.39 One surgeon used red oak bark added to water as a disinfectant, slippery elm as an emollient, may apple and strong teas of peach tree leaves as laxatives, and for... 

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