Safety Incidents And Near Miss Announcements

2010 Reported Incidents

#2-10 - Mar 1, 2010 - Worker Escapes Injury From Line Saw Disc Failure

#1-10 - Feb 20, 2010 - Worker Nearly Crushed By Falling Kiln Door

2009 Reported Incidents

#15-09 - Aug 7, 2009 - Lockout Violation Results In Serious Hand Injury

#14-09 - June 1, 2009 - Near Miss With Lumber Wrap Paper Cutting System That Could Have Resulted In Serious Hand Injury

#13-09 - July 23, 2009 - Worker Narrowly Escapes Injury While In Sawbox Changing Saws - Lockout Violation

#`12-09 -July 9, 2009 - Worker’s Hand Crushed - Failure To Lockout

#11-09 - July 20, 2009 - Telescopic Boom Contacts Overhead Power Line

#10-09 - July 23, 2009 - Worker’s Suffers Partial Amputation As His Hand Gets Caught Between Pike Pole & Structure

#9-09 July 14, 2009 - Worker’s Hand Amputated in Cedar Shake Mill

#8-09 July 6, 2009 - Worker Crushed Between Forklift And Lumber Package

#7-09 June 10, 2009 - Worker’s Hand Was Drawn Into Transfer Belt Scraper.

#6-09 June 1, 2009 - PPE Saves Employee From Severe Burns When Material In Babbitt Pot Explodes

#5-09 May 25, 2009 - Worker Falls From Height Fractures Hip

#4-09 May 10, 2009 - Lockout & Fall Results In Fractured Wrist & Tailbone

#3-09 January 16, 2009 - Tip Ring Finger Amputated In V-Belt & V-Belt Safety Policy

#2-09 January 29, 2009 - Western Forest Products - Followup Hazard Altert to Alberta Veneer Plant Working Killed in Scissor Lift

#1-09 January 2009 - Alberta Veneer Plant Worker Killed in Scissor Lift Due to Not Locking Out

 

 

2008 Reported Incidents

#15-08 July 9, 2008 - Trim Block Injury Results Partial Amputation 2 Fingers

#14-08 June 2, 2008 - Worker Injures Head When Sitting On Belt Not Locked Out

#13-08 June 22, 2008 - Worker Recieves Electrcal Burns

#12-08 April 22, 2008 - Worker Fractures Wrist, Receives Facial Laceration When Ladder Falls

#11-08 April 22, 2008 - Worker Fell Descending Stairs Broke Leg

#10-08 March 13, 2008 - Worker Amputates 4 Fingers From Contacting Clpper (Trimsaw)

#09-08 March 5, 2008 - Millwright Amputates Fingers & Thumb on Right Dominant Hand Not Locking Out

#08-08 February 28, 2008 - Amputation of Right Foot & Laceration and Deformity to Left Leg

#07-08 February 21, 2008 - Fractures to fingers

#06-08 February 2, 2008 - Worker has arm amputated as saw comes off arbour

#05-08  January 16, 2008 - New Worker Narrowly Avoids Injury By Not Locking Out

#04-08 January 23, 2008 - Lockout Violation Results In Amputated Thumb

#03-08 January 26, 2008 - Worker Struck in Face When Metal Cutting Wheel Shattered

#02-08 January, 2008 - Worker Amputates 3 Fingers On Left Hand

#01-08 January 14, 2008 - Young Worker’s Hand Amputated In Lock-out Violation

 

2007 Reported Incidents

December 7, 2007 - Millwrights Thumb Amputated While Clearing Jam-up in Chute

November 26, 2007 - Worker Sustains Serious Hand/Arm Injuries From Getting Arm Caught In Roller

November 11, 2007 - Worker Sustains Serious Inuries From Being Struck By Mobile Equipment

October 30, 2007 - 61 Year Old Millwright Sustains Serious Injuries From Fall

October 15, 2007 - Interfor Adams Lake Fatality

October 6, 2007 - Worker Breaks Leg Removing 600 Pound V-Belt Pulley On Chipper

September 12, 2007 - Worker Seriously Burned In Boiler Incident

May 26, 2007 - Interfor Adams Lake Fatality

May 2, 2007 - L&M Lumber - Serious Injuries Worker’s Feet While Clearinng Conveyor Jam-up

March 5, 2007 - Worker Breaks Arm Clearing Edger Jam-up

Bobcat Speared By Log Loader Wagner With Operator Inside

 

 

 

2006 Reported Incidents

November 22, 2006 - Abitibi Fatality Announcement

November 22, 2006 - Abitibi Fatality Accident Investigation

November 15, 2006  - Young Worker Leg Amputation