51st Annual Mine Safety Awards

Recipients of the 51st Annual Mine Safety Awards were celebrated on June 8th, 2013 in Revelstoke.

Open Pit Mine and Quarry Awards and Underground Mine Awards were handed out to mines and quarries that accumulated 15,000 or more worker or contractor hours, and had no fatalities between the period of January 1 and December 31, 2012.

Open Pit Mine and Quarry Awards

Certificate of Achievement

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

• Allard Contractors Ltd. – Mission Pit
• Butler Brothers Supplies Ltd. - Duncan Aggregate
• Butler Brothers Supplies Ltd. - Keating Pit
• Certain Teed Gypsum Canada Inc. - Windermere Mining Operation
• Fraser Pacific Enterprises Inc. – Sumas Shale Quarry
• Jack Cewe Ltd. – Treat Creek, Jervis Inlet Mine
• Plateau Construction Ltd. – Harper Ranch Quarry

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
• AuRico Gold Inc. – Kemess Mine
• Lafarge Canada Inc. – Central Aggregates
• Lafarge Canada Inc. - Pitt River Quarries
• Lafarge Canada Inc. – Earle Creek Aggregates
• Lehigh Materials – Sechelt Mine
• Summit Crushing – Ward Road Quarry

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 Coal Ltd. – Coal Mountain Operations
• Teck Resources Ltd. – Quintette 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.

• Thompson Creek Metals - Mount Milligan

Underground Mine Awards

Small Underground Mines Award

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

• No winner

Large Underground Mines Award

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

• Nyrstar - Myra Falls Operations
• Quinsam Coal Corporation