 Man killed in industrial explosion on Red Deer outskirtsMisc CDN | 207156 hits | Nov 03 9:19 pm | Posted by: Alta_redneck  Two witnesses in the area reported that they heard and felt the explosion at 1:40 p.m. in the Belich Industrial area. When they rushed over across the street to the back of one corner of the nearby business — J Moore Enterprises at 30 Belich Cres. — they Commentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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Never a good way to go, but natural selection is a bitch!
Kind of surprising this doesn't happen more often considering the safety program usually gets set aside ASAP during austerity times.
And in good times, it's mostly ignored until someone gets hurt.
Kind of surprising this doesn't happen more often considering the safety program usually gets set aside ASAP during austerity times.
And in good times, it's mostly ignored until someone gets hurt.
Safety is always a priority right until it interferes with the bottom line.
If it's a safety fuck up then they'll lose every penny in insurance costs that they ever saved on cost cutting.
No, they will get hammered with all sorts of increased costs, investigations and audits. That's the way things like this work. You can ignore safety and pad your bottom line like 2Cdo says, until there is a problem. Then the system will come down on you so hard, you will be an example for the rest of the industry. Competitors will shudder when your name is spoken.
A company I worked for was required to do a daily vehicle walk around, and record that check. They never did. Until one day a truck was pulled over for a routine inspection, and they didn't have the documentation. Transport Alberta was going to park all of our trucks for 3 weeks until detailed inspections were done.
All of a sudden, they paid attention to my emails from the last 6 months, and every driver was told to do their checks and submitted the results. And they did! How odd!
Snuff snuff what's that smell? Smells like rotten eggs!
Hmm natural gas smells like rotten eggs.
Better light a match and see if it's natural gas...
If it's a safety fuck up then they'll lose every penny in insurance costs that they ever saved on cost cutting.
Here's some precedent. The claas action drags on however
"The sheer magnitude of this event was unprecedented in Ontario at the time," said Justice Leslie Chapin.
Paola Loriggio · The Canadian Press
January 25, 2016
Sunrise Propane Energy Group Inc. was fined $5.1 million in court Monday. The company is no longer in operation, and was given two years to pay the fine
A fiery explosion at a Toronto propane plant that forced thousands out of their homes in the dead of night and claimed the life of an employee caused "unprecedented" devastation, an Ontario judge ruled in imposing $5.3 million in fines against the company and its directors.
Sunrise Propane, which is no longer in operation, has two years to pay $5.1 million, while its directors Shay Ben-Moshe and Valery Belahov have three years to each pay $100,000, Justice Leslie Chapin said Monday.
"The sheer magnitude of this event was unprecedented in Ontario at the time," Chapin said in describing the "widespread and devastating" effects of the Aug. 10, 2008 blast.
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Though the disaster has since been eclipsed by the deadly train derailment in Lac-Megantic, it remains significant enough to warrant serious fines, the judge said.
That the defendants behaved recklessly and were motivated by a desire to cut costs were among the aggravating factors, she said.
Prosecutors had sought more than $7 million in fines against Sunrise Propane and its leaders.
The company, Ben-Moshe and Belahov were found guilty in June 2013 of nine provincial offences related to the explosion that launched fireballs into the sky, filled the air with smoke, shattered windows and coated lawns in toxic asbestos.
Twenty-five-year-old employee Parminder Saini died in the blast and a 55-year-old firefighter who responded to the emergency on his day off died of a heart attack.
The Sunrise Propane explosion in the early hours of August 10, 2008 sent a fireball into the Toronto sky, damaged dozens of nearby homes and forced the evacuation of an entire neighbourhood.
The court ruled that Sunrise failed to provide safety training and a safe working environment, discharged a contaminant and contravened a number of provincial orders related to the cleanup after the blast.
The court also found that Ben-Moshe and Belahov failed to take all reasonable care to prevent the company from flouting those orders.
The company was cleared, however, of one count of failing to comply with a directive which involved notifying the Environment Ministry if it couldn't or was unable to clean up after the blast.
The trial heard that, according to the government, the initial blast took place when propane vapours ignited during a risky truck-to-truck propane transfer.
The government shut down all three of Sunrise Propane's facilities shortly after the incident.
Defence lawyer Leo Adler had pushed for lower fines, arguing his clients don't have the money to pay millions of dollars. But Chapin said she had "no reliable information" to support that assertion.
She did, however, take the pair's remorse over Saini's death into account as a mitigating factor, along with the fact that they had no prior record of similar offences.
http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/canada/toro ... -1.3419010