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Safest mill contest tally continuing

September 27, 2001  By Pulp & Paper Canada


The latest tally for the Safest Mill in Canada Contest, sponsored by Pulp & Paper Canada, was compiled at the end o…

The latest tally for the Safest Mill in Canada Contest, sponsored by Pulp & Paper Canada, was compiled at the end of August. The following list contains the name of the mill, the number of injuries, the number of hours and the frequency rate.
In Category “A” (over 100 000 manhours per month), the top five safest mills are:
Bowater Newsprint, Thunder Bay, ON,
Injury: 0; Hours: 1 683 271; Rate: 0.00;
Fraser Papers Nexfor, Edmundston, NB,
Injury: 1; Hours: 802 076; Rate: 1.25;
UPM-Kymmene Miramichi Inc., Miramichi, NB,
Injury: 2; Hours: 1 357 627; Rate: 1.47;
Domtar, Espanola, ON,
Injury: 2; Hours: 1 101 792; Rate: 1.82;
Abitibi-Consolidated Inc., Fort Frances, ON,
Injury: 3; Hours: 902 993; Rate: 3.32.

In Category “B” (50 000 to 100 000 manhours per month), the top five safest mills are:
Daishowa Marubeni International Ltd., Peace River, AB,
Injury: 0; Hours: 516 500; Rate: 0.00;
Weldwood of Canada Ltd., Hinton, AB,
Injury: 1; Hours: 747 414; Rate: 1.34;
Weyerhaeuser Canada, Grande Prairie, AB,
Injury: 1; Hours: 664 962; Rate: 1.50;
Domtar, Eddy Specialty Papers, New Westminster, BC,
Injury: 1; Hours: 575 808; Rate: 1.74;
Cariboo Pulp & Paper, Quesnel, BC,
Injury: 1; Hours: 494 401; Rate: 2.02.

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In Category “C” (less than 50 000 manhours per month), the top seven safest mills (all with zero injuries) are:
Smurfit Stone, New Richmond, QC,
Injury: 0; Hours: 379 704; Rate: 0.00;
Marathon Pulp Inc., Marathon, ON,
Injury: 0; Hours: 332 142 ; Rate: 0.00;
Kimberly-Clark Inc., Huntsville, ON,
Injury: 0; Hours: 272 223; Rate: 0.00;
Domtar Papers, St. Catharines, ON,
Injury: 0; Hours: 249 980; Rate: 0.00;
Quesnel River Pulp Company, Quesnel, BC,
Injury: 0; Hours: 199 113; Rate: 0.00;
Sonoco Lt., Trent Valley, ON,
Injury: 0; Hours: 151 371; Rate: 0.00;
Slave Lake Pulp Corp., Slave Lake, AB,
Injury: 0; Hours: 136 786; Rate: 0.00.


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