Explosions and accidents have workers at B.C. mine demanding action

The union that represents miners at Teck’s Elkview Mine says it warned the company and province about a series of accidents and explosions.

Now the United Steelworkers Union is demanding action before there is a fatality after several incidents recently at Teck’s steel-making coal mines in the Elk Valley, near the Alberta border.

The latest was an explosion last Wednesday afternoon in a coal dryer at the Elkview mine, which is just outside Sparwood, one of Teck’s five mines in the