Sawmill Explosion

• Burns Lake Sawmill owners drop appeal against WorkSafeBC over $1M penalty for 2012 explosion

  "We do not want to put anyone through additional distress reliving the tragic accident," the company said in a release.

  Canada

  Jun 22, 2018
  
• Burns Lake sawmill should have been shut before blast: worker

  Freezing temperatures wrecked equipment at a sawmill that hadn't been prepared for such weather before an explosion killed two workers, a coroner's inquest has heard.

  Jul 17, 2015
  
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• Separate inquests into B.C. sawmill blasts

  The B.C. Coroners Service has decided to hold separate inquests into the deaths of workers in two sawmill explosions in 2002.

  Jan 28, 2015
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• Two-year memorial marks B.C. mill blast

  More than 100 people have gathered in Burns Lake, B.C., to mark the second anniversary of the sawmill explosion and fire that killed two workers.

  Jan 20, 2014