Safety staff at Noranda’s (NOR-T) Heath Steele mine, about 50 km southwest of Bathurst, N.B., are investigating an explosion that took the life of miner Arthur Doucet on Nov. 4.
Staff member Roger Clinch said Doucet, 47, was killed and another miner injured when sulphur dioxide gas was released — probably from the sulphide ores — by a production blast. “Normally, the miners would be in a safe area when the blast is detonated, and somehow they came in contact with the gas,” said Clinch. “We’re trying to find out how and why.”
The last fatality at a New Brunswick mine was in 1992, at Noranda’s Brunswick operation.
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