Article from the OH&S Canada Magazine
By: Jason Contant
On the morning of September 5, 2008, a plumber was called to A-1 Mushroom Substratum Ltd. in Langley, British Columbia for the second time in as many days. There, he found an intake pipe at the bottom of a pump shed completely blocked and informed a supervisor at the mushroom composting facility that a company with expertise in sewer pump-out would be needed.
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An Alberta worker is dead and a fellow employee was injured during an explosion inside a tanker trailer on February 3, 2008.
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More than a thousand workers were sent home from Suncor Energy Inc. Millenium Coker Unit about 25 kilometres north of Fort McMurray, Alberta after a fire broke out.
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In early January, Sure Fresh Foods Inc. entered a single guilty plea for its failure to provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker regarding confined space entry procedures.
A $150,000 fine has been levied against a chicken-processing company in Barrie, Ontario following the death of a worker in April, 2006.