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Hearing date set in workplace death case

Mar 10, 2018 | 5:00 AM

MEDICINE HAT, AB —A hearing date has now been scheduled for a contractor charged following a death at CF Industries in 2015.

Aluma Systems appearing in Medicine Hat provincial court on Friday, where a hearing was set for April 13, also at provincial court.

The organization is facing five charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act in connection with the fatality which took place the CF Industries plant on December 7, 2015 as a result of an ammonia leak.

Two workers were doing some work on an ammonia tank at CF Industries, when a mobile lift allegedly struck a valve on the tank, which released ammonia.

One worker, a 49-year-old man, died from his injuries. The second worker suffered minor injuries.

The company is charged with two counts of failure to ensure the health and safety of the workers. They are also charged with failure to take measures to eliminate or control a hazard, failure to ensure a hazard assessment was repeated when a work process or operation changed and failure to provide safeguards where a worker could accidentally, or through the work process, come into contact with a hazard.

The charges were laid on November 30, one week before the deadline to press charges following an investigation.

None of the charges have been proven in court.