Following last Wednesday’s accident at Abitibi-Bowater in which three employees were injured by an electrical arc, 10 orders have been issued to the company by the Ministry of Labour.
The 10 orders, issued last Thursday. include two stop work orders.
The first to ensure no work is conducted in the electrical room until the employer takes, “every precaution reasonable to ensure the protection of the worker specifically to ensure that a written hazard assessment be conducted by a competent person and communicated to all workers to ensure workers are protected from shock and burn.”
The second stop work order also relates to electrical safety standards which must be met.
“The investigation’s ongoing,” said Bruce Skeaff, media relations coordinator for the Ministry of Labour.
The Ministry will be in constant contact with Abitibi-Bowater as the investigation continues which means, according to Skeaff, more orders are possible.
The three employees were working on an electrical panel when the accident occurred. Two journeyman electricians as well as one pre-apprentice student suffered burns in the incident. Two of the injured were sent to Toronto for medical care and one was airlifted to Winnipeg.
According to the Electrical Safety Authority, 53 percent of electrical injuries are from working on live electrical equipment.
Between 1998 and 2006, 39 percent of critical injuries involved burns from an electrical arc, noted the Authority’s website.
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