Workplace Safety North mourns the loss of Eulogio (Bot) Gutierrez, who was fatally injured after being struck by a piece of mobile equipment while working underground at Hemlo...
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Dec 01, 2017
Nov 07, 2017
Public safety course designed to prevent snowmobile-truck collisions on busy Ontario logging roads
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Mar 30, 2017
Day of mourning for persons killed or injured in the workplace
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Nov 26, 2015
Workplace Safety North regrets to inform its member firms that a fatality occurred at Musselwhite mine at Opapamiskan...
Oct 20, 2015
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May 25, 2015
WSN regrets to inform its clients that a 22-year-old woman, Alexie Dallaire-Vincent, was fatally injured while working underground at St. Andrew Goldfields on Saturday, May...
Jan 15, 2015
Source: Yvon Theriault/Radio-Canada
The Ministry of Labour and the Ontario Provincial Police are investigating the death of a Red Lake man in a gravel pit.
Police...
Tags: Workplace Fatalities
Jul 14, 2014
WSN regrets to inform its clients that a fatality occurred on Thursday, July 10, 2014 at North American Palladium’s Lac des Iles mine, located north of Thunder Bay.
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Jun 26, 2014
WSN regrets to inform its clients Michel Fournier Bolduc, 26, was fatally injured at Holt Mine in Matheson, Ontario on Wednesday, June 25th.
According to a Ministry of...
Jun 03, 2014
How to identify risk factors for workplace violence
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