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Crew workers testify at inquest sufficient training and was prepared for the job, Thibault answered “yes.” “It was just general clean-up Young workers and their training orientation were the focus of using an air wand, sweeping and much of the final witness testimony picking up dirt,” he said. “It was selfinto the mill death of an 18-year-old explanatory.” Thibault, who said he “never Lumby man in 2013. Bradley Haslam was killed dur- worked alone” during his time at ing the early morning hours of Tolko, admitted under questioning June 15, 2013, in an accident inside that things became more clear for him when he was given a tour of the Tolko’s Lavington mill. Haslam had been employed with mill as opposed to reading information in the booklet. the mill since March of 2013. “There was mill terminology Colton Thibault was the last of the younger workers employed as that I had no idea what was being the mill’s clean-up crew to testify talked about, but when I saw it in person, it made perfect Thursday at a four-day sense,” he said. coroner’s inquest into Also on the witness Haslam’s death, being stand Thursday was Rick held at the Vernon (Boots) Bouthillier, a Courthouse. 26-year Tolko employee Thibault, now 19, told and a member of the inquest counsel John Orr mill’s safety committee. that he was hired by Tolko Bouthillier said safety in May 2013, and that his orientation happened on Bradley Haslam talks and tours are regular mill components, but his first day of work. said demonstrating safety “I got called during school to come to the mill so I features, rather than having them went after school,” said Thibault. “I be read, resonated more with the was given a booklet and watched a young workers. “I find it’s better to have demWorkSafe B.C. video, and another video. Then I went home and got onstrations and tell anecdotal stosome rest because I was told to ries about injuries, they carry more weight,” said Bouthillier, who later show up for work.” Thibault said he was taken added that he read statistics that around the mill and shown how to young workers are more likely to do a lockout of the equipment. His be injured on the job than seasoned first shift was working with Haslam workers. “I think it’s generally the inexon the No. 3 chipper, the same machine where Haslam’s body was perience of young workers who are not attentive to the inherent dangers discovered. “At the beginning of the night, in the work place,” he said “It’s not a we met to see where we would be lack of training, but an inherent lack working. I was told I was going with of awareness as a younger person.” The final two witnesses Thursday Brad who was cleaning the chipper,” said Thibault. “All Brad made were scheduled to be senior manme do was blow down (dust) and agement from Tolko. At the conclusion of witness tessweep. I can’t tell you what he was doing because I was concentrating timony, the six-man, one-woman jury will convene in closed quarters on my job. “After that night, I never worked to fully ascertain how Haslam came to his death and to make any recthere (chipper) again.” Asked if he ever saw Haslam ommendations arising out of the climb over the conveyor belt near inquest with the aim of preventing the chipper, Thibault answered “no.” future loss of life in similar circumAsked by Orr if he felt he had stances.
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The investigation into a fatal motor vehicle accident continues in downtown Vernon. A Kelowna woman in her 30s died at the scene after her Pontiac car collided with a Chevrolet van at 30th Avenue and 32nd Street at about 1:15 a.m. Thursday. “The driver of the van is currently under investigation for impaired driving,” said Gord Molendyk, Vernon RCMP spokesperson. A Vernon woman in her 30s, who was a passenger in the car, was first taken to Vernon Jubilee Hospital with serious injuries and then transferred to Kelowna General Hospital. The van was reported to be travelling eastbound on 30th Avenue when it drove through a red light at 32nd Street and struck the car’s driver’s door. The driver of the van, a 37-yearold Vernon woman, was held for court Thursday to answer to charges of impaired driving causing death and impaired driving causing bodily harm.
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