Bear attack injures Suncor worker at oil site as company struggles with safety record

📆 2023-05-11 23:20:00
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A worker at a Suncor oilsands site was injured in a bear attack over the weekend, adding to concern about the company’s safety record. Read on.

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The person was transferred to a hospital and released hours after the encounter with the animal, which occurred at about 8 p.m. on May 6 at the Base Plant operation in northern Alberta, company spokesman Leithan Slade said in an email. A bear attack in 2014 resulted in the death of a Suncor oilsands worker in the same area.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.

The incident comes as Suncor’s new chief executive officer, Rich Kruger, has pledged to focus on improving worker safety. Alberta regulators laid five charges last month against Syncrude, a Suncor oilsands joint venture, in the death of a worker who drowned at the facility in June 2021.

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