Posts Tagged As: Mining accident in Ontario

Blog Post #1656 – Workplace Injury Results In $75,000 Fine for Goderich Salt Mining Company

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘newsroom’

A worker, employed by Compass Minerals Canada Corp., of Mississauga, Ontario, a salt mining company. was critically injured while assisting with repairs on a flexible conveyor train. By failing to close off the area and position warning signs to protect workers, Compass Minerals Canada Corp. failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 68 of Ontario Regulation 854/90 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1602 – Workplace Injury Results in $60,000 Fine for Quebec Drilling Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

On February 1, 2023, a worker, employed by Forages Technic-Eau Inc. / Technic-Eau Drillings Inc., of Sherbrooke, Quebec, was unloading boxes from an idling crawling carrier that was parked beside a pickup truck. The worker failed to apply the parking brake before exiting the crawling carrier. When exiting the vehicle, the worker then accidentally made contact with its control levers.

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