Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by SCR Mines Technology (2013) Inc., of Val Caron, Ontario, a company that provides specialty underground mine development and maintenance service, was fatally injured when blasted ore saturated with concrete and water overwhelmed protective barriers at the base of a mining shaft used to transfer ore and mining waste from the Lac Des Iles Mine. The Lac Des Iles Mine is managed by Impala Canada Ltd., of Toronto, Ontario.