Jack Kennedy THOMPSON

1920 - 1972  (52 years)

• Name	Jack Kennedy THOMPSON
  Birth	5 Jan 1920
  Gender	Male
  Death	26 Jan 1972	Skamania County, Washington
  Burial	Odd Fellows Cemetery, The Dalles, Wasco County, Oregon
  Notes	From an article in the January 27, 1972, edition of The Oregonian. Two men were injured fatally at Bonneville Dam Wednesday when a scaffold on which they were standing collapsed at the upstream auxiliary fishway entrance. Dead are 51 year-old Jack K. Thompson, of 904 E. 10th Street, The Dalles, and Albert Brock, 44, of 914 NE 92nd Ave., Portland. Thompson was killed outright and Brock died several hours later in Gresham General Hospital. Skamania County sheriff’s deputies said the men were working above a 56-foot hole near the fishway counting station on the north shore when the accident occurred. Cause of the accident was not given. Both men were employed by Pacific Vantures, Inc., a contractor from Bellevue, Washington. From an article in the February 3, 1972, edition of The Oregonian. An accident that killed two iron workers at Bonneville Dam last Wednesday was caused by a combination of human error and fate, an Iron Workers Union official said in Portland Wednesday. Jack Thompson, 52, The Dalles, and Albert Brock, 44, Portland, died when a nut worked off a bolt securing scaffolding and the temporary structure fell off a fishway wall on the dam’s Washington side, said William Kissinger, business agent for Iron Workers Local 29 in Portland. Kissinger said the accident occurred while the men were transferring their safety lines from one point to another during repair work on the fishway. “At any other moment they would have been tied off,” said Kissinger, and would probably have escaped injury. Workmen failed to place a second jamb nut on a bolt holding scaffolding bracket in position and the single nut gradually worked its way off, tumbling the entire structure, said Kissinger. The incident was investigated by the Army Corps of Engineers as well as state and union officials the business agent noted. Kissinger said the union will insist on a third man being assigned to watch the scaffolding while repair work on the fishway is concluded.
  Person ID	I778	Don Carlson's Tree
  Last Modified	25 May 2023

  
  

  Father	James THOMPSON
  Mother	Alice
  Family ID	F18893	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Armella Dean VALGREN,   b. 9 Jul 1923, Wisconsin d. 6 Jul 2010, Wasco County, Oregon (Age 86 years)
  Marriage	21 Nov 1942	Amery, Polk County, Wisconsin
  Children	1. Jerry Lee THOMPSON,   b. 26 Jan 1951, Oregon d. 24 Jun 2001, Oregon (Age 50 years)
  Family ID	F568	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 May 2013