Blog Post #1087 – Dump Truck Tips Over, Mine Company Fined $70,000 for Worker’s Injuries

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

At the Detour Lake Gold mine, about 185 km northeast of Cochrane, Ontario, on August 24, 2014, A worker hauling rocks in a dump truck being operated in reverse was critically injured when the truck fell and flipped over on its roof. There was no berm (protective barrier) to support the truck and the road gave way beneath the truck.

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