{"id":1157641,"date":"2019-12-30T13:29:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-30T19:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/?p=1010228"},"modified":"2019-12-30T13:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T19:29:10","slug":"safety-commission-files-charges-against-baffinland-for-workers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/?p=1157641","title":{"rendered":"Safety Commission files charges against Baffinland for worker\u2019s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Workers\u2019 Safety and Compensation Commission filed 16 charges in the Nunavut Court of Justice against Baffinland Iron Mines Corporation accusing the company of failing to keep safe a main road used to haul iron ore, which caused the death of a 63-year-old truck driver.<\/p>\n<div class='d-flex justify-content-center d-xs-block d-sm-block d-md-none'>\n<div id='div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0'><script>googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1561499308230-0');});<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The accident took place in December 2018, when Tony Anker was fatally injured at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Mary River mine (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mining.com\/baffinland-submits-environmental-update-may-river-project-nunavut-authorities\/\" >Mary River mine<\/a> site, near the Hamlet of Pond Inlet in the northern part of Canada&#8217;s Baffin Island. The worker died while operating a Cat 745C Articulated Truck.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Commission, the death was caused by Baffinland\u2019s failure to keep the road safe, which constitutes a violation of the Nunavut Mine Health and Safety Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wscc.nt.ca\/news\/media-release-workers%E2%80%99-safety-and-compensation-commission-lay-charges-under-nunavut-mine-health\"  rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"press release (opens in a new tab)\">press release<\/a>, the organization states that it is accusing the company of \u201cfailing to supervise, instruct and train as is necessary to protect the health and safety of workers and failing to provide and maintain healthy and safe worksites.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"report (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/north\/baffinland-safety-charges-unsafe-road-1.5409484\" >report<\/a> by public broadcaster CBC, court documents state that Baffinland did not display correct signage about speeds, gear selection and payloads along the main work road at Mary River.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The allegations have yet to be proven in court. Baffinland told CBC that they are false and that it plans to defend itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The first court date is scheduled for January 9, 2020.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 63-year-old trucker was killed at the Mary River mine site in December 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157641"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1157641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1157645,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157641\/revisions\/1157645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1157641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1157641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/juniorminingnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1157641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}