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A WorkSafeBC review has upheld a decision to impose more than $1 million worth of penalties against Babine Forest Products for a catastrophic explosion and fire in January 2012 at the Burns Lake sawmill in British Columbia which killed two workers and injured more than 20 others. Babine owner Hampton Affiliates put in a number of appeals over the ruling, but the regulator has upheld the original decision....
A coroners inquest into the deaths of two men at the Burns Lake sawmill explosion in January 2012 has made 41 recommendations aimed at improving safety. The two fatalities and 11 injuries occurred during the fire and explosion at the Babine Forest Products mill in Burns Lake, British Columbia, which the jury concluded were accidental....
Babine Forest Products has announced it plans to appeal a C$1 million penalty, the highest ever levied by WorkSafeBC, for a fatal explosion and fire at its Burns Lake sawmill in British Columbia in January 2012. The company had been found to be in violation of the Workers Compensation Act and the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation....
On January 16 British Columbia occupational health agency WorkSafeBC released its report into the fatal blast at the Babine Forest Products mill in January 2012. This followed the province’s legal authorities announcement last week they would not pursue charges against the company, in part due to the flawed nature of the WorkSafeBC investigation....
The Vancouver Sun says a British Columbia Safety Authority investigation has concluded the root cause of the explosion at the Babine Forest Products sawmill, which killed two workers and injured 20 others in January 2012, was a failure to recognise and manage the explosive risks of wood dust....
The Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake, British Columbia, that was destroyed by an explosion and fire in January 2012, will be rebuilt, according Hampton Affiliate officials. The sawmill was a joint venture between the Burns Lake Native Development Corporation (BLNDC) and Hampton, processed logs for the most part killed by mountain pine beetle. ...
The owners of the Burns Lake sawmill in British Columbia that was destroyed in an explosion last January said on September 17 they would rebuild it providing the province could follow through on commitments to ensure a timber supply was made available to feed the mill, according to the Vancouver Sun....
Two sawmill explosions earlier this year have cast a long shadow over the British Columbia wood processing industry, already in difficulty because of the mountain pine beetle epidemic that has killed many of the forests from which its timber is sourced. Could those very same beetles also bear some responsibility for the blasts? ...
Samples of sawdust from the Babine Forest Products sawmill in Burns Lake, British Columbia, which was the scene of devastating explosion on January 20, have been sent to a specialist laboratory in the USA, according to WorkSafe BC....
In response to questions over the January 20 explosion at Hampton Affiliates' Babine Forest Products mill near Burns Lake, British Columbia, WorkSafe BC has confirmed that its regulations governing combustible dust give no specific limits, leaving employers to decide what is safe from guidelines....