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Canadian court fines Potash Corp in mine worker's death

Published 2015-12-09, 02:55 p/m
© Reuters. Canadian court fines Potash Corp in mine worker's death
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Dec 9 (Reuters) - A Canadian court has fined fertilizer
producer Potash Corp of Saskatchewan POT.TO after falling
earth killed a worker in its Cory, Saskatchewan, potash mine.
Saskatchewan provincial court in Saskatoon on Wednesday
fined the company C$280,000 ($206,000) for violating health and
safety laws - namely failure to control movement of geological
strata - after worker Jason Shulist was killed in February 2014.
Strata are layers of rock or soil.
Potash Corp spokesman Randy Burton said the company has
taken several steps to prevent a recurrence, including drilling
bolts into the ceiling as precautions more often than in the
past. The company is also developing ground-penetrating radar to
help crews predict any problems.
Potash Corp was also fined last October for a 2012 fatality,
when a machine used to move ore to conveyor belts backed over a
worker.
($1 = 1.3579 Canadian dollars)

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