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Blog Post #455 – Mining Company Charged

April 20, 2020May 1, 2014 by Dan

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (March 2010) A mining company in Newfoundland and Labrador faces nine health and safety charges following an incident in January of 2008. Teck Resources Limited has been charged with failing, as an employer, to provide a safe workplace, ensure workers were made familiar of the hazards they may face … Continue Reading

Blog Post #448 – Muck Flood Kills Young Worker

April 20, 2020March 16, 2014 by Dan

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine

The failure to develop and implement safety procedures and devices to protect workers from a run of muck has landed Sherritt International Corporation, operating as Canada Talc, a $285,000 fine.

Blog Post #441 – George Downing Estate Drilling Ltd. Fined $75,000 after Worker Injured

April 20, 2020February 23, 2014 by Dan

Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Succession Forage George Downing Ltee./George Downing Estate Drilling Limited, a Quebec mining company, was fined $75,000 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.

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

April 16, 2020October 5, 2013 by Dan

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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