Saskatchewan’s justice ministry has charged PotashCorp and a supervisor at the company’s Lanigan, Sask. potash mine with occupational health and safety violations in a worker’s death.
Robert Tkach died in September 2008 while working at the Lanigan site, about 50 km south of Humboldt.
Saskatoon-based PotashCorp faces charges under Saskatchewan’s Occupational Health and Safety Act, the province said. Those include:
- failure of its supervisor to take reasonable care to protect the health and safety of a worker;
- failure to ensure that the health, safety and welfare at work of all the employer’s workers;
- failure to ensure that all work is sufficiently and competently supervised;
- failure to ensure that a supervisor complies with the OHS Act and regulations; and
- failure to ensure a direct supervisor record all significant information relevant to the health and safety of a worker.
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Tkach’s supervisor Garth Gudnason is charged with failure to take reasonable care to protect the health and safety of a worker who may be affected by his acts or omissions, the province said in a release Thursday.
According to a report Thursday by CBC in Saskatchewan, Tkach, age 60, died of injuries on the job from being pinned beneath the jeep he was driving, after it went off the edge of a ramp and flipped.
Occupational health officials allege violations at the mine including a lack of training, failure to identify hazards, and a lack of seatbelts, CBC said.
