Suncor workers must have safety training and follow strict workplace safety protocols, but just how safe are these employees? Another recent death puts the total number of Suncor workers who have died either at the company sites or close to them at 6 in 2014 so far. According to the President and CEO of Suncor, Steve Williams, “Incidents like these are unprecedented and not acceptable,. We have assembled a major task force to intensify safety efforts and ensure tragedies like these never happen again.” The most recent incident is suspected to have been a heart attack, when Suncor workers found the man around 3 in the morning and called paramedics to the scene. When the hazards of the work that is involved with the big energy companies are considered the number of workplace safety incidents and on the job accidents are still small.
Suncor workers are extensively trained in workplace safety, and some accidents are unavoidable. From all appearances so far the latest of the Suncor workers who have died on the job suffered from a heart attack, and there is not anything that the company can do about this health condition. If a heart attack was the cause of the latest death of Suncor workers on the job then it had nothing to do with workplace safety. Before this latest incident there were already 5 deaths on or near Suncor sites, three employees died, one each in three separate incidents, and two Suncor contractors died in two different incidents. Would you work for one of the big oil companies in Fort MacMurray?