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
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?)
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.
Blog Post #374 – Kirkland Lake Gold Inc. Fined $100,000 after Workers Injured
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Kirkland Lake Gold Inc., a company that operates an underground gold mine in Kirkland Lake, was fined $100,000 on September 6, 2011, for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act after two workers were injured.