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A landslide that’s stopped production at Victoria Gold’s Eagle mine in the Yukon may have been inevitable due to the company’s weak approach to safety protocols, current and former employees say.to share their experiences of working at Eagle, told of neglected incidents and repairs, attempts to subvert injury reports and widespread drug and alcohol use in a supposedly dry camp. They asked not to be named to avoid career repercussions.
Victoria has issued three news releases since the accident. It has not responded to multiple requests for comment. The precise cause of the accident is being investigated. “We were directed to send them computers and give them online training so they could stay at home and stay on the payroll, which wouldn’t show any time loss,” the former safety department member said.
“We drove down from the top of the pad the lunchroom,” he said. “Before I got out of the truck, I asked ‘is this a safety stand-down or is this a regular lunch?’ He said it’s a regular lunch. I said, ‘I don’t agree with that.’”
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