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A female employee was fatally injured in an accident at an underground gold mine in Ontario over the weekend.
St. Andrew Goldfields Ltd. (TSX:SAS), which operates the Holt mine 125 kilometres east of Timmins, said the 22-year-old employee was killed in an underground rail haulage incident. In a press release posted on Sunday, the company said it is cooperating with Ontario Provincial Police, the Ontario Ministry of Labour and other parties involved with the investigation.
“We are deeply saddened by this news and our sincere condolences go out to the family, fellow workers, and friends,” said Duncan Middlemiss, President & CEO of SAS.
According to the company, ore is trammed using 4.5-tonne rail cars and fed through an underground jaw crusher. From there, crushed ore is hoisted via the shaft to the surface in 8-tonne skips.
9 Comments
BAITSE
ARE THESE PEOPLE DOING SAFETY AWERENESS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEIR WORKERS ARE SAFE AND MAYBE NEWLY RECRUTED STAFF NKOW WERE THEY SHOULD TRAVELL?
Mike Failla
Once again we see an already hazardous job coupled with in-experience and the result is a fatality. On the other hand we have complacency. I have done that in my sleep is a common refrain. The anomaly comes out of nowhere and kills the complacent person. He didn’t see it and dint recognize it a wham. Fatailty.
May she rest in peace.
jimmey dean hiya
some insight.
they will say that she was well trained,knew her job.
but
was she trained in safe-production?.tramming is one of the most dangerous jobs underground(i did it).and mines treat it as entry level job.
on 30 lb rail(small gauge) you go off the track often pulling with thousand of pounds of rock downhill(2% grade)and pushed to produce(if there is no production>no mine)
smaller mines train basic safety not “safe-production.”
safe -production is key,more than week of training.at least a month.
safe-production is the ability to understand:if worker does a task what are the hazards that could happen?you only get that through experience and mentoring but mentoring costs money.
its a sad day
Rayban
So typical of the entire world these days . How can someone with Safety as 1st Priority get killed by a rail item ? More likely as stated by others here it was production first and safety second . REAL WORLD safety is indeed VERY MUCH , different from basic safety .
jimmey dean hiya
if you have done it you would know.
Fletcher Bingley
My sincere condolences go out to this young woman’s family, friends and co-workers.
As for the rude, inaccurate and disgusting comment below, all I can echo is the well known phrase, “It is better to remain quiet and let people think you are stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt”!
Merv Ritchie
Was Clifford Frame involved somewhere here? Two deaths at Quintette Coal followed in 1992, 7 years later, by the loss of 26 coal mine employees at Westray. And this man continued on in the Canadian Mining world. Every time I hear of a death at any mine I reflect back on how these people are allowed to continue killing people without suffering criminal charges, as is done everywhere when deaths are involved.
And yes, condolences to the family and friends and all workers who accept dangerous, life threatening, jobs to provide their families with the necessities of life.
http://www.mwpr.ca/show9897a300x300y1z/IM_SORRY_IT_MUST_BE_THE_PUNCHES_I_TOOK_TO_THE_HEAD
drifter
Clifford Frame deserves your remarks but it is simple minded to lump all other mining accidents into his actions. The government regulators also bear responsibility for Westray even though the courts acquitted them and Clifford. Clifford had the rep going into Westray as a careless and “balls-to-the-wall” production oriented, get it done at any cost executive. I was a young miner then and my supervisor from an earlier job asked me to join them at Westray. Many of the miners at Westray, Clifford included, had no coal mining experience- which is very different from hard rock mining. I declined for that very reason – I didn’t think they new what they were doing and I was frightened of coal mining. My heart goes out to the family of that young woman who died underground this weekend; there but for the grace of God…There are no killers here only a tragic accident. I went underground in 1973 and I’m still mining. One can romanticize the danger and culture of mining but mining provides good, stable, safe, skilled employment to skilled workers,who have undergone rigorous safety and operational training – many with at least two years of college education. Working with limited lighting, in a tight space with those rail cars – someone made an unfortunate and disastrous mistake. This is not a cultural or socio-political farce; this is life, hard won and short. Merv’s offhand, after the fact, acknowledgement of her death as the tail end summary of a dubious statement was poorly chosen. Only a reflection of the short attention-span of this technological race track were no one has the attention span of a gnat or the ability to formulate an argument that could shine a light on this life we lead.
Frank Matyus
sad, they will not say what happen so that we could all learn from it