43rd Annual Mine Safety Awards

Recipients of the 43rd Annual Mine Safety Awards were celebrated on April 18, 2005 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. – Duncan
• Butler Brothers Supplies Ltd. – Keating Pit
• Hub City Paving – Cassidy Pit
• Jack Cewe – Jervis Inlet
• Plateau Construction Ltd – Harper Ranch Quarry
• Steelhead Aggregates – Skway Pit
• Valley Rite Mix – Cannon Contracting

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”
• Ash Grove Cement Company – Blubber Bay Quarry
• BPB Canada Inc - Windermere Mining Operation
• Lafarge Canada Inc. - Central Aggregates
• LeHigh Northwest Materials, Construction Aggregates Ltd. - Producers Pit
• Okanagan Aggregates – Okanagan Pit
• Pitt River Quarries Ltd. - Pitt River Quarry
• Western Canadian Coal – Dillon Mine

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.

• Highland Valley Copper- Highland Valley Copper

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