Hudbay’s Lalor mine is back up to operation after a worker died underground earlier this month.
The company announced it had resumed full operations at the mine June 23, with hoisting activities resumed and production ramping back up to Lalor’s typical levels. Hudbay had temporarily shut Lalor down following the June 19 accident that claimed the life of a contract worker at the mine.
The worker, identified by police as a 59-year-old man from Brandon, was working underground at Lalor on a night shift when he was fatally injured in a fall. The worker was employed by Dumas Mine Contracting and not a Hudbay employee. Hudbay confirmed the death to The Reminder June 20, publishing a press release on the matter the next day. No other injuries were reported in the incident. RCMP and Workplace Safety and Health are investigating the worker’s death.
The worker’s death is the first to have happened at the Lalor mine facility and the first death at a Hudbay mine site since 2012, when a worker died at 777 mine.
