Alberta regulator lays charges in 2023 workplace fatality at fracking site

Birchcliff Energy Ltd. faces 18 counts under Alberta’s Occupational Health and Safety Act following the October 2023 drowning death of a contractor at a northern Alberta fracking pond.

The Calgary-based oil and gas company has been charged in connection with the death that occurred Oct. 10 at water storage pits south of Bay Tree, Alta., a remote community about 150 km northwest of Grande Prairie, CBC News reported.

According to the charges, the worker was collecting a water sample from an open water reservoir used for hydraulic fracturing when they fell into the reservoir and were fatally injured. The contractor was not wearing a life jacket and was working alone at the time of the incident.

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