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Blog Post #1636 – Police Search for Answers at ‘Vast’ Quebec Explosion Site – Part 2

July 7, 2025 by Dan

Report from Google report July 07, 2025 A fatal explosion occurred at a Quebec fuel distributor, Propane Lafortune, in St-Roch-de-l’Achigan on January 12, killing three workers. The explosion, which involved a gasoline vapor ignition during welding repair work on a tanker truck, also destroyed the building. Details of the incident: Cause: A welder was repairing cracks … Continue Reading

Blog Post #1635 – Police Search for Answers at ‘Vast’ Quebec Explosion Site

July 7, 2025 by Dan

Report from the OHS Canada magazine (Winter 2023)

The investigation into the causes of a fatal blast at a propane company north of Montreal could be long and complex, police said, after three bodies were found at the site.

Blog Post #1633 – Workplace Injury Results in $70,000 Fine for Construction Company

July 3, 2025 by Dan

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Steed and Evans Ltd. of St. Jacobs, Ontario, a civil infrastructure and material supply company, was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle while performing sewer chamber work on a roadway. By failing to position adequate warning signs or barriers to protect the worker, Steed and Evans Ltd. failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 67(4) of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

Blog Post #1632 – This is a follow-up report on the McIntyre Powder Project report from the number 1631 blog post.

June 30, 2025 by Dan

Report from the United Steel Workers

Between 1943 and 1979, tens of thousands of Canadian workers, primarily in mining but also in other industrial workplaces, were compelled to endure toxic aluminum dust inhalation “therapy.”

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