The Sullivan Mine Confined Space Incident

摘要

During the early afternoon of Monday,May 15,2006,Doug Erickson - a 48-year-old environmental contractor with Pryzm Environmental - entered a 2.93 by 2.44 metre acid rock monitoring station with a 1.5m underground sump at the Teck Sullivan mine site near Kimberly,BC. The site had been inactive since December 2001. For a number of years Erickson had routinely entered this monitoring station for the purpose of securing water samples and performing flow measurements on behalf of mine owner Teck Cominco.