A Calgary-headquartered company has been penalized more than $42,000 after an explosion injured two workers at a B.C. facility that accepts waste from oil fields.
The explosion occurred at about 5:10 p.m. on June 24, 2024, at a facility about 13 kilometres northeast of Dawson Creek run by Secure Energy Inc. & Secure Energy Services Inc. et al. At the time, a contractor was installing safety chains inside a shaker building — where tanks separate liquids from solids.
“Welding work was done above the shaker tank where the presence of a flammable or explosive substance was,” reads an incident report from WorkSafeBC, “and an explosion occurred.”
The explosion lifted and threw
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