Vale Canada fined C$1m for mine fatality

An Ontario provincial court has levied a C$1-million fine – the second-highest ever – against Vale Canada, after one worker died and another was critically injured while attempting to clear a jam in a rock-crushing machine at a plant near Sudbury. Vale Canada pleaded guilty and has been fined an amount a little less than the fine of C$1.05-million issued in 2013 for the company's conviction and guilty plea for the death of two men at the Stobie underground mine, also near Sudbury, in 2011.