NEW GLASGOW, N.S. — Police have released the name of a Nova Scotia man killed in an industrial accident at a foundry in the province.
Lloyd Keith Fancy, 59, of Trenton was killed while working at a loading dock Tuesday evening at Maritime Steel and Foundries Ltd. in New Glasgow.
Early indications from an investigation suggest “that the worker was struck by a container on a loading dock,” Kevin Finch, a spokesman for the Labour and Workforce Development Department, said Wednesday.
“Whether that is a dumpster or a shipping container for overseas, I don’t know. It was during the unloading of a truck from a third party.”
Police and the government department are investigating the accident.
Immediately following the accident, the department issued three stop-work orders, one of them for the use of the hydraulic loading dock where the accident occurred.
“We also requested the maintenance records for the dock and an order that lights be installed in the dock area,” Finch said.
The company has issued a statement saying it will cease operations until Thursday and will “co-operate in every possible way” with police and labour officials.
Seventy-five people are employed at Maritime Steel.
“The company would like to take this opportunity to offer its sincere condolences to the family of its employee,” the statement said.
Maritime Steel was convicted on two charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act in May 1993 following a fatal workplace injury in September 1992.
Four charges were laid related to the accident itself, while about half a dozen more were laid against the company at the same time for unrelated reasons.
“Some were related directly to (the accident) and some may have just been while the inspector was on site,” Finch said.
The company was fined $3,000 following the conviction.
In 2000, following another fatal injury, where a worker was struck in the head by a steel girder, the company was fined $3,600.