Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
Four construction workers at a sports complex that will serve as the practice facility for the Montreal Canadiens escaped with only minor injuries after a portion of the structure collapsed on February 25, 2011.
Blog Post #99 – Electrocution the Result Of Various Issues
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
Safe work procedures, employee training and use of personal protective equipment all would have helped prevent a Quebec worker’s electrocution earlier this year, provincial investigators say.
Blog Post #25 – Miners Were Never Alerted To the Danger
An alarm system that could have warned three workers about dangerous water levels was disconnected when they drowned at a Quebec mine, last October 30, 2009. The company, Metanor Resources Ltd., sent the three miners down the shaft in an elevator at the Bachelor Lake gold mine in Desmaraisville, Quebec. They were there to help rehabilitate a mine shaft. The miners entered the cage on the six level and headed toward the 12th but encountered water about halfway through the 10th level. The elevator operator grew concerned when the workers did not signal that they reached their destination.
It took rescue workers three days to recover the miners, whose bodies were frozen in blocks of ice.