The B.C. government was preparing to release a progress report on worker safety in forest-product mills earlier this month when an explosion ripped through a wood-pellet plant in Burns Lake, injuring three workers.
The update would have trumpeted how the government is making progress on a series of recommendations to improve workplace safety – changes designed to make sure the circumstances that led to two deadly sawmill explosions two years ago would never be repeated.
Justine Hunter – Globe and Mail – October 19, 2014.