Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
An Alberta employee returned to work almost a week after an electrical contact injured him and left his co-worker dead.
At about 5:30 pm on December 12, employees at Calgary-based Iko Industries Inc. were in the process of replacing an electric circuit unit on an electric panel when the crew foreman came in contact with a 4,160-volt live wire and was electrocuted, says Barrie Harrison, a spokesperson for Alberta Employment, Immigration and Industry (AEII).
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Excerpt from the Government of Ontario ‘Newsroom’
Maple Leaf Consumer Foods Inc., of Kitchener, was fined $100,000 yesterday for a violation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was injured.
On November 13, 2008, at the company’s factory in Brampton, a worker was preparing equipment that puts sauce on meat products. As the worker was attaching a return hose to a pump, the worker’s finger was caught in the pump and its tip was severed. The pump had been running while the worker was doing this preparation work.
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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
Two workers at a potash mine in Esterhazy, Saskatchewan were injured, one fatally, on November 28, 2010 when a raw ore bin’s bottom collapsed and the material spilled out.
A 28-year-old worker at The Mosaic Company’s K-2 mine, about three hours east of Regina, died, and another employee, 40, sustained non-critical injuries in the 2 am incident.
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A Manitoba Hydro employee was treated in hospital after the truck he was driving on an ice-covered lake at the Stephenfield Provincial Park broke through.
The employee had been patrolling a 230-kilovolt transmission line on November 30 as part of an annual maintenance program to ensure transmission hardware is in place, says Manitoba Hydro spokesperson Glenn Schneider. The worker was driving the flex-track truck over the Boyne River in the community of Carman, Schneider says, but as he crossed the ice, it “wasn’t strong enough to support” the weight of the vehicle.
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