Excerpts from the OHS Canada magazine
A mechanical contracting firm in St. John’s, NFLD, has been charged with two workplace safety violations in connection with an incident in March, 2008.
Blog Post #47 – Vale Closes Furnace at ‘Copper Cliff’ Smelter
By The Canadian Press
Vale (VALE-N) closed its No. 2 flash furnace in Sudbury early on Sunday morning Feb. 6 after molten metal leaked out between the tapping block and the furnace, the company has confirmed.
The failure of a tapping block on the northeast wall of the furnace caused the metal leak, which then ruptured cooling water lines and caused a reaction in the furnace.
Blog Post #45 – Atlas Dewatering Corporation Fined
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Atlas Dewatering Corporation, a Concord company dealing in groundwater control, was fined $75,000 on February 10 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was critically injured. Patrick Maher, a supervisor with the company, was fined $6,000 in relation to the same incident.
Blog Post #44 – Shame, Shame on You, Alberta!!!!!
Two construction companies have been fined in the death of a little girl who was hit by debris from a Calgary worksite.