Blog Post #1304 – Cobalt Mining Company Fined $75,000 After Worker Injured by Conveyor
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by SMC (Canada) Ltd., a company that extracts and recovers precious metals in mining mills near Cobalt, Ontario, suffered a critical injury after becoming entangled in machinery. The machinery should have had a guard to prevent workers from coming into contact with moving parts.