Another worker has been killed at
The worker was crushed to death while loading steel wire mesh into a storage area. It is the second fatality at the mine in less than two months, and the fourth in almost 16 years. In February, an explosion killed a drilling and cabling contractor.
The mine will run at normal capacity while local authorities investigate the latest incident.
The fatality comes just 11 days after Agnico-Eagle reported that the Ontario Securities Commission might take action against it and some members of management over the “timing and content” of the company’s disclosure of a 30,000-ton rockfall at the mine in early 2003.
The company announced the fall after the markets closed on March 31, 2003, but failed to indicate when exactly the incident occurred, other than sometime in March (T.N.M., March 29-April 4/04). That accident did not result in any injuries or fatalities, and underground and mill operations were unaffected.
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