Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
A vehicle operator working at a bitumen operation in northern Alberta suffered fatal injuries when his pick-up was run over by a heavy hauler dump truck that weighed 350-tonnes.
Blog Post #93 – Another Bad Day in Alberta
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
A slab of cement on the inside of a concrete mixer fell on a worker, sending the 37-year-old man to a Calgary hospital with serious injuries on September 10, 2010.
Blog Post #80 – Study finds ‘Child Labour’ violations in Alberta
Excerpts from the Canadian OH&S News Magazine
A study suggesting potentially widespread labour malpractices involving children and adolescents in Alberta, including illegal employment, has elicited calls from the Alberta Federation of Labour (AFL) to beef up enforcement.
Blog Post #46 – Two Men Electrocuted in Edmonton, Alberta – ” Here We Go Again !!!
Excerpts from the Alberta Confederation of Labour
EDMONTON – Two men are dead after farm machinery they were transporting came in contact with an overhead power line Thursday evening.
Occupational Health and Safety sent investigators out to the accident, but they left shortly afterwards without conducting a full investigation. The deaths happened on a farm, and farms aren’t covered under Alberta’s workplace safety laws.
Alberta is the only province in Canada where farm workers are not covered in some capacity by workplace legislation.