Ontario Premier meets with family of fallen miner over safety probes
Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne met with the mother and sister of fallen miner Jordan Fram, as well as with a steelworkers union president to discuss probes into mining safety across the province.
Fram and Jason Chenier died in 2011 at Vale’s Stobie Mine in Sudbury, Ontario.
The union, Steelworkers Local 6500, is trying to build momentum for safety probes after earlier refusals by the Ontario government to conduct an inquiry of the Fram and Chenier deaths.
The Fram family participate in the work of the Mining Inquiry Needs Everyone’s Support (MINES) committee, who also seek prince-wide safety probes.
“There hasn’t been a review of mining safety for many years, and that needs to happen,” Wynne said.
Read more here.
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4 Comments
Thestarv
Hope this goes somewhere
apple
By all means move to perfect safety,
but the unions that are pushing these actions may be going down a path that may have other consequences. Canadian mines are very safe and one of the few ways to improve safety is to put less people in harms way. Look for fewer and fewer peolple in mines, particular underground mines, so look for more remote operated machines and fewer union members in the future
guest
Lol we are minimum twenty years from this, there will always be a need for someone to be underground. Machines break, humans haven’t built a machine that doesn’t break yet.
In the meantime some due diligence from the managers, and less apathy from the articles readers. Try to remember these fellas left some family behind.
Minedude
Yes. There should be a review of Mine Safety in Ontario because for the most part, it works (with all due respect to the Chenier family). Put it into perspective. Something like a half-dozen cyclists have been killed on the road by Ontario motorists this year but I don’t see any inquiries into these issues, where people are truly being hurt and killed.