Criminal charges?Contrary to the statement added to the end of the new release FACTS by the company, the HSE commission concluded that MTO was at fault. As for criminal charges they are levied by the police and have nothing to do with civil litigation. Adding that a civil lawsuit has been settled is a red hearing thrown out by the company to distract from the fact charges may be laid.. There is no statue of limitation for murder. Thanks again to WINDBAG for misinforming investors again, that's why I felt I should post this information to balance his ignorance.
VAL D'OR, Que. - A mining company is responsible for an accident that killed three workers last fall, according to a report released Thursday by Quebec's workplace health and safety commission.
The commission found that a series of mechanical and human errors led to the tragedy at the Bachelor Lake gold mine owned by Metanor Resources, just outside Desmaraisville, Que., a community about 650 km northwest of Quebec City.
"This is an accident that shouldn't have happened," said the provincial agency's regional director, Marcel Charest, on Thursday.
Workplace safety investigators found that a pumping station with leaking pipes, a badly wired alarm system and neglected safety procedures helped caused the accident that killed Domenico Bollini, Bruno Goulet and Marc Guay in October 2009.
The three men died after being lowered into freezing water while working to rehabilitate a shaft in the mine.
Charest said simple safety procedures could have prevented the deaths.
"If (the rules) are respected, when there's a flood in the bottom of the mine they'll realize before people are in the water," he said. "But they didn't know the mine was flooded and they descended."