42nd Annual Mine Safety Awards

Recipients of the 42nd Annual Mine Safety Awards were celebrated on April 19, 2004 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:

• Allard Contractors Ltd. - Mission Pit
• Butler Brothers Supplies Ltd. - Langtry Pit
• Imperial Paving Ltd. - Ross Road Quarry
• Jack Cewe Ltd. - Jervis Inlet
• Okanagan Aggregates Ltd. - Okanagan 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"
• BPB Canada Inc - Windermere Mining Operation
• Canada Pumice Corporation - Nazko Quarry
• Lafarge Canada Inc. - Central Aggregates
• LeHigh Northwest Materials Construction Aggregates Ltd. - Producers Mine
• Pitt River Quarries Ltd. - Pitt River Quarries
• 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.

• Elk Valley Coal Corporation – Coal Mountain

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.

• Elk Valley Coal Corporation - Elkview Operations

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