Well over one million hours of work without a lost-time accident have been accumulated at the Elliot Lake operations of Denison Mines, establishing a new Canadian mine safety record.
According to Colin Benner, Denison vice-president operations at Elliot Lake, it becomes the first underground hardrock mining operation ever to achieve one million safe working hours under the current definition of a lost-time accident.
Under the definition that came into force in 1968, an accident is considered to be “lost time” when it causes an employee to miss more than one day of work. Before that time, the return-to-work grace period was three days.
The last lost-time accident at Denison occurred on Feb 15, 1988. By June 2 the million-hour mark had been surpassed, and as of June 21 more than 1,150,000 hours had been worked at the underground mine and above ground processing facilities, without an accident.
There are 1,700 Denison employees at Elliot Lake.
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