Charges have been laid in the death of a man fatally injured on the job at a Grande Prairie lumber mill in the winter of 2023. According to Alberta Occupational Health and Safety, Weyerhaeuser Company Limited is facing 13 charges in the workplace fatality. On Nov. 18, 2023, the man was clearing a blockage from a wood chipping machine when he was fatally struck. The worker was using a pike pole to clear an obstruction from a canter machine when the pole came in contact with the energized rotating side heads of the machine. The pike pole … was ejected from the machine, striking and fatally injuring the worker. The March 31 charges include a failure to ensure the safety and welfare of a worker, a failure to ensure the worker was adequately trained and for allowing a worker to clear a blockage in a machine without shutting it down.