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Alberta Company Fined More Than $18,000 After Workplace Fatality

Released on March 27, 2014

Iroc Energy Services Corp., operating as Eagle Well Servicing, of Calgary, Alberta has pleaded guilty to two charges under occupational health and safety legislation and was fined $18,200 in Regina Provincial Court on March 18, 2014.

The company pleaded guilty to:
  • contravening section 420 of the regulations (failure to ensure that a guy line was installed from the tubing board to the outrigger on the driller side of the derrick) and was fined $6,500 with a $2,600 surcharge; and
  • contravening clause 413(d) of the regulations (failure to ensure that the daily tour book for the rig was reviewed and signed by its supervisor, each day) and was fined $6,500 with a $2,600 surcharge.
The charges relate to a workplace fatality near Kisbey, Saskatchewan on December 14, 2009.  A worker was crushed beneath a drilling platform as a result of being unable to escape from the tubing board before the platform fell.  Three additional charges against the company were stayed.

Since 2004 there have been 31 workplace fatalities in the oil and gas industry.

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For more information, contact:

Laura McKnight
Labour Relations and Workplace Safety
Regina
Phone: 306-787-035

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