41st Annual Mine Safety Awards

Recipients of the 41st Annual Mine Safety Awards were celebrated on April 14, 2003 in Victoria.

Open Pit Mine and Quarry Awards

Certificate of Achievement

Certificates of Achievement was presented to the following operations, all of which had with a minimum of 15,000 worker hours and an injury-frequency rate of zero:

• Caveman Construction & Aggregates - Korman Pit
• Coquitlam Sand & Gravel Ltd. - Mantle Creek
• Hub City Paving Ltd. - Cassidy Pit
• Jack Cewe Ltd. - Jervis Inlet
• Lafarge Cannon Contracting - Cannon Pit
• Pitt River Quarries Ltd. - Pitt River Quarries
• Steelhead Aggregates Ltd. - Cannor Road Pit

Stewart/O'Brian Safety Award

This award was presented to the following operations, all of which logged between 35,000 and 200,000 worker hours and had the lowest injury-frequency rate.

• Allard Contractors Ltd. - Pit ‘D’
• Lafarge Canada Inc. - Central Aggregates
• Steelhead Aggregates Ltd - Skway Pit

Edward Prior Award

This award is presented to operations that logged between 200,000 and 1,000,000 worker hours and had the lowest injury-frequency rate.

• Teck Cominco - Bullmoose Mine

John Ash Award

This award is presented to operations that logged a minimum of 1,000,000 worker hours and had the lowest injury-frequency rate.

• Highland Valley Copper - Highland Valley Mine

Underground Mine Award

Small Underground Award

This award is presented to operations that logged between 20,000 and 240,000 worker hours (one-third of which were underground) and had the lowest injury-frequency rate.

• Quinsam Coal Corporation     - Quinsam Coal

OHSC Award

• Elkview Coal Corporation - Elkview Mine