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Canadian Safety Monuments www.7safetyhabits.com CANADIAN WORKPLACE SAFETY MONUMENTS TO REMIND US OF THE SACRIFICE CANADA 150 1867 - 2017 www.7safetyhabits.com INTRODUCTION 24 / 7 ✓ I have outlined the workplace safety monuments in Canada. I continue to try and see all monuments and museums as I travel across the country. Wilson Bateman ✓ I start with a proposed monument in my neighbourhood of Welland, Ontario. Should you wish to donate. ✓ I am sure I have missed some , so please feel free to add to the list. ✓ What lessons have we learned? Please comment. Research my be required. ✓ I have included Westray lessons Learned , from an IAPA & BC conference presentation I conducted. It’s will be 25 years this may. ✓ Imagine you were walking through a museum of Safety History in Canada, 150 years. ✓ I begin with the National Day of Mourning. www.7safetyhabits.com [email protected] www.7safetyhabits.com The National Day of Mourning, held annually in Canada on April 28, is dedicated to remembering those who have lost their lives, or suffered injury or illness on the job or due to a work-related tragedy. www.7safetyhabits.com APRIL 28 • Statistics and beyond • The most recent statistics from the Association of Workers' Compensation Boards of Canada (AWCBC) tell us that in 2015, 852 workplace deaths were recorded in Canada. Among those dead were four young workers aged fifteen to nineteen years; and another eleven workers aged twenty to twenty-four years. • Add to these fatalities the 232,629 claims accepted for lost time due to a work-related injury or disease, including 8,155 from young workers aged fifteen to nineteen, and the fact that these statistics only include what is reported and accepted by the compensation boards, and it is safe to say that the total number of workers impacted is even higher. • What these numbers don't show is just how many people are directly affected by these workplace tragedies. Each worker death impacts the loved ones, families, friends and coworkers they leave behind, changing all of their lives forever. www.7safetyhabits.com NATIONAL DAY OF MORNING • Observance • The National Day of Mourning is not only a day to remember and honour those lives lost or injured due to a workplace tragedy, but also a day to renew the commitment to improve health and safety in the workplace and prevent further injuries, illnesses and deaths. • On April 28th the Canadian flag will fly at half-mast on Parliament Hill and on all federal government buildings. Employers and workers will observe Day of Mourning in a variety of ways. Some light candles, lay wreaths, wear commemorative pins, ribbons or black armbands, and pause for a moment of silence at 11:00 a.m. • History • In 1991, eight years after the day of remembrance was launched by the Canadian Labour Congress, the Parliament of Canada passed the Workers Mourning Day Act making April 28 an official Day of Mourning. Today the Day of Mourning has since spread to about 100 countries around the world and is recognized as Workers’ Memorial Day, and as International Workers' Memorial Day by the International Labour Organisation (ILO) and the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). • It is the hope of CCOHS that the annual observance of this day will help strengthen the resolve to establish safe and healthy conditions in the workplace, and prevent further injuries and deaths. As much as this is a day to remember the dead, it is also a call to protect the living and make work a place to thrive. https://www.ccohs.ca/events/mourning/ Saint John, NB, Canada www.7safetyhabits.com www.7safetyhabits.com MONUMENTS • For a complete list visit CCOHS https://www.ccohs.ca/events/mourning/ www.7safetyhabits.com 3 PARTS : 1. 1887 – 1930 2. 1956 – 1974 CANADA 150 1867 - 2017 3. 1982 – Present www.7safetyhabits.com PART 1 DATES : 1887 - 1930 • Welland Canal (proposed) • World’s most dangerous • 7 Survived 1887 CANADA 150 • The Iron Ring 1907 1867 - 2017 • Ice Warning 1912 • The Worst 1914 • Empress 1914 • Christmas Tree 1917 • Merchant 1930 www.7safetyhabits.com www.7safetyhabits.com WELLAND CANAL FALLEN WORKERS MEMORIAL • 137 men who died while building the Welland Ship Canal. • It is believed to be the largest loss of life on a federal government infrastructure project in Canadian history. • A photo of damage caused by a fatal accident in 1928 at Lock 6 in Thorold during the construction of the Fourth Welland Canal. Nine men died after a 500 ton steel lock gate fell to the lock floor after a locomotive-powered crane toppled into the lock cavern, knocking over the gate. Photo from the St. Catharines Museum, John Kennedy Collection. www.7safetyhabits.com 124 DEATHS Welland Canal deaths, by the numbers Official records show none of the 124 lost were • 1914:Year construction began easy deaths. Some were crushed, like those who died in the infamous gate collapse of 1928. • 1932:Year canal opened Others were electrocuted or drowned. Others lingered for a time after suffering grievous • 124: Number of known deaths wounds • 13: Number of known nationalities among the dead http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/2016/07/11/canal-memorial-cost-rising-about-100000 www.7safetyhabits.com www.7safetyhabits.com FIRST MAJOR CANADIAN COAL MINING DISASTER • The first major Canadian coal mining disaster was at Westville, Pictou County, Nova Scotia, on 13 May 1873 after a shot of explosive ignited methane at the coal face. The fire caused a gas explosion, which, fed by coal dust, ripped through the mine and set off further explosions, killing workers and firefighters attempting their rescue. • Those untouched by the blast and fireballs were brought down by the carbon monoxide left in the fire’s wake. The mine was sealed to starve the fire of oxygen, and two years passed before the last of 60 bodies were recovered. • http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/coal-mining-disasters/ www.7safetyhabits.com WORLD’S MOST DANGEROUS COLLIERY • The Pictou County coal field was particularly dangerous because the thick, methane- oozing seams made them prone to spontaneous combustion and explosion. Of the coal field’s 676 known mining deaths, 246 were from explosions. Experts considered Stellarton’s Allan mine the world’s most dangerous colliery. In the explosion of 23 January 1918, 88 died, leaving barely a family in the community untouched by the disaster. www.7safetyhabits.com BE YE ALSO READY WHO PERISHED IN THE DRUMMOND COLLIERY EXPLOSION OF MAY 13 - 1873 OH WHAT A SUDDEN SHOCK THEY IN A MOMENT FELL NO TIME ALLOWED TO BID THEIR FRIENDS FAREWELL WEEP NOT FOR THEM, NOR SORROW TAKE, BUT LOVE THEIR FAMILIES FOR THEIR SAKE BE YE ALSO READY http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nspictou/minewest.htm www.7safetyhabits.com CAPE BRETON • From 1866 to 1987, 1,321 fatalities were reported in Cape Breton mines, including 65 in an explosion at New Waterford (25 July 1917), and 16 in Sydney Mines (6 December 1938) when a cable broke, sending a riding rake plummeting. The last explosion (Glace Bay, 24 February 1979) took 12 lives. www.7safetyhabits.com www.7safetyhabits.com NANAIMO MINE EXPLOSION 1887 www.7safetyhabits.com 7 SURVIVED Only seven miners survived and the mine burned for one full day. www.7safetyhabits.com NANAIMO MINE EXPLOSION ON MAY 3, 1887 • The Nanaimo mine explosion on May 3, 1887, in Nanaimo, British Columbia killed 150 miners. Only seven miners survived and the mine burned for one full day. • The explosion started deep underground in the Number One Coal Mine, after explosives were laid improperly. Although many miners died instantly, others were trapped by the explosion. • These men wrote farewell messages in the dust of their shovels. Nearly 150 children lost their fathers and 46 women became widows. commemorates the event. www.7safetyhabits.com PLAQUE A plaque at the foot of Milton Street commemorates the event. www.7safetyhabits.com QUEBEC CITY BRIDGE COLLAPSE 1907 www.7safetyhabits.com PERSONAL STORY • High above the St. Lawrence River, on a hot August day in 1907, a worker named Beauvais was driving rivets into the great southern span of the Quebec Bridge. Near the end of a long day, he noticed that a rivet that he had driven no more than an hour before had snapped clean in two. • Just as he called out to his foreman to report the disquieting news, the scream of twisting metal pierced the air. The giant cantilever dropped out from under them, crashing into the river with such force that people in the city of Quebec, 10 km away, believed that an earthquake had struck. • http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/quebec-bridge-disaster-feature/ www.7safetyhabits.com 75 WORKERS • Of the 86 workers on the bridge that August 29, 1907, 75 died, many of them local Caughnawaga, famous for their high steel work. • Some of the dead had been crushed by the twisted steel; others by the fall. Still others drowned before the rescue boats could reach them. www.7safetyhabits.com THEODORE COOPER • The Quebec Bridge was to be one of the engineering wonders of the world. When completed it would be the largest structure of its kind and the longest bridge in the world, outstripping the famous Firth of Forth Bridge in Scotland. • American engineer Theodore Cooper was chosen to design it. He was a proud even arrogant man who had numerous prestigious projects to his name, including the Second Avenue Bridge in New York. www.7safetyhabits.com SUBORDINATE • Cooper chose the cantilever structure as the "best and cheapest plan" to span the broad St. Lawrence. That word "cheapest" would come back to haunt him. In order to cut the cost of building the piers farther out in the river, Cooper lengthened the bridge span from 490 metres to 550 metres.
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