Employer's Report of Incident is now on WSCC Connect! 

A Heavy Equipment Operator and the excavator they were operating to remove gravel from an old quarry site slid into the water-filled excavation.

It is important to assess site conditions, including proper slope or grade as excavations can cause the ground surface to become unstable. Working on unstable surfaces can cause slides potentially endangering the heavy equipment and equipment operator.

A Heavy Equipment Operator clearing snow to build an ice road had to make an emergency exit from the machine when it broke through the ice. The operator was outside of the area tested for safe ice thickness. The operator was able to escape. Work activity was stopped until an internal investigation could be completed.

Iqaluit, NU (December 22, 2020) – On December 14, 2020, Tower Arctic Ltd. appeared in the Nunavut Court of Justice in Iqaluit and was sentenced for an offence under the Nunavut Safety Act.

The Prosecutor and Counsel for Tower Arctic Ltd. jointly proposed a sentence of a fine of $75,000.00. The Judge accepted the sentencing proposal, along with a victim fine surcharge pursuant to the Nunavut Victim of Crimes Act.

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