Glencore Canada Corporation faces five charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act stemming from an incident on May 9, 2018, that injured three workers at its Sudbury Integrated Nickel Operations.
“The Ministry of Labour investigation is completed and charges have been laid,” said MOL spokesperson Tristan Austin in an email.
Greater Sudbury Police said at the time they received a call about the accident at around 9 p.m. on May 9. A 56-year-old man was transported to hospital in critical condition and a 55-year-old man and 46-year-old man were treated by paramedics for non-life threatening injuries.
The charges were laid Feb. 15, 2019 against Glencore Canada Corporation, as an employer, and an individual supervisor.
Glencore is charged with failing to ensure workers were provided with information, instruction and supervision for the task of, transferring sulfuric acid from rail car to tanker truck, at a workplace in Falconbridge; ensuring ensure that the provisions of s. 62.1(2) of Ontario Regulation 854/90 were complied with; ensuring that the provisions of s. 56(b) of Ontario Regulation 854/90 were complied with; ensuring the provisions of s. 57 of Ontario Regulation 854/90 were complied with; and ensuring that the provisions of s. 185(7) of Ontario Regulation 854/90 were complied with.
A charge was also laid against an individual supervisor for failing to ensure that a worker uses or wears the equipment, protective devices or clothing that the worker’s employer requires to be used or worn.
The next court date is scheduled for May 10 at the Ontario Court of Justice in Sudbury.
