Alberta company fined in 2009 Saskatchewan workplace death

REGINA – An Alberta company has been fined after a 2009 workplace death in Saskatchewan.

On Dec, 14, 2009, a worker was killed in Kisbey after being crushed beneath a drilling platform. The worker was not able to escape from the tubing board before the platform fell.

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Iroc Energy Services, operating as Eagle Well Services, pleaded guilty for failing to ensure a guy line was installed from the tubing board to the outrigger on the driller side of the derrick and for failing to ensure the daily tour book for the rig was reviewed and signed by a supervisor each day.

The company was fined $18,200 in Regina provincial court last week.

Three other charges against the company were stayed.

There have been 31 workplace fatalities in the oil and gas industry since 2004.