Two compliance orders were issued to Vale after an incident in which molten metal leaked from a furnace and set off a number of explosions at the copper cliff smelter in Sudbury, Ontario.
Excerpt from the OHS Canada magazine
A slew of occupational health and safety charges have been laid against mine operator Vale Limited in connection with a double fatality during the 2011 calendar year.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
755055 Ontario Ltd., operating as Rodco Enterprises, a Haliburton construction company, was fined $50,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured. A supervisor from the company was fined $2,500 in relation to the same incident.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Nova Scotia is touting improvements on the oh&s front that helped reduce work-related fatalities to 21 last year in 2010 and to cut the lost-time injury rate by 16.5 per cent since 2008.