The union representing four workers who died in two British Columbia sawmill explosions in 2012 says it hopes a new review of worker safety ordered by the provincial government will lead to overdue justice for survivors and families of the victims.
Steve Hunt, district director for the United Steelworkers union, said previous inquiries into the explosions at Babine Forest Products in Burns Lake and Lakeland Mills in Prince George raised more questions than answers and he hopes the new review prevents similar disasters from happening in the future.
Coroner's inquests were previously conducted into the deaths and the government commissioned two other reports in 2014 -- the Dyble report and Macatee report. Together, they made recommendations directed at government and other agencies. He accused WorkSafeBC of acting in the interests of industry instead of the workers it is supposed to represent, pointing to a document written by a WorkSafeBC manager in February 2012 -- after the first explosion and before the second.
He said he still thinks about a meeting years ago he had with dozens of survivors in a room who shared their experiences with him.
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