Posts Categorized As: Employment Standard

Blog Post #396 – Two Burned in Torch Accident

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

2009-03-01
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Two Ontario companies were fined a total of $180,000 following an incident three years ago in which two workers sustained burn injuries.

Following a trial, Hard Rock Paving Company Limited and Hard Rock Construction Inc. were convicted and fined $120,000 and $60,000, respectively.

Blog Post #390 – No Charges in Oil Site Death in Alberta – (What, not again?)

Article first Published by the OH&S Canada magazine

March 2009 – Andrew D’Cruz
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Provincial officials in Alberta have opted not to pursue charges in connection with the death of a worker last April at the Muskeg River site, then jointly operated by Shell Canada and Albian Sands Energy Inc.

Christopher Allen Vanmoorsel, 26, died at about 8 pm when a 280-tonne heavy-haul truck ran over the pick-up truck he was driving near a work site 75 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alberta. The Caterpillar 797B is one of the largest mechanical dump trucks, measuring 10 metres wide, 14 metres long and seven metres tall when empty.

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