Workplace injury results in $75,000 fine for salt mining company - OHS Canada Magazine

Workplace injury results in $75,000 fine for Goderich salt mining company

Compass Minerals Canada Corp. has been fined $75,000 following a critical workplace injury at its Goderich salt mine in December 2022.

Workplace injury results in $75,000 fine for salt mining company - OHS Canada Magazine

Compass Minerals Canada Corp. has been fined $75,000 after a worker was injured while assisting with repairs on a flexible conveyor train. On Dec. 19, 2022, maintenance workers and an electrician were repairing a flexible conveyor train that had partially run off its rails at a workplace in Goderich, Ont. To fix the problem, the maintenance workers had to maintain power to the equipment to get it back onto the rails. The electrician left the are…

Salt mining is secured on the Lower Rhine until 2050. The district government Arnsberg has approved the application for extension of K+S as the competent mining authority.