Workers at FNX Mining Company Inc.'s McCreedy West Mine site near Sudbury are celebrating having gone 365 days without injury to any employees or contractors.
This works out to roughly 200,000 hours without a single use of first aid or medical aid treatment.
"In the more than 40 years I have worked in mining, I have never seen anything like this," said Alex Perreault, a first line supervisor at the site, in a release.
"I have seen small crews of four or five people work this long without an injury, but never an entire mine site."
The mine, which is set to produce 274,000 tons through 2010, also realized no reportable environmental spills and exceeded the budgeted ore delivered to surface by nearly 10 per cent.
These successes are being credited to the maintenance of a positive attitude, teamwork, doing things right and high housekeeping standards.
The McCreedy West mine is unique in its use of multiple mining methods to extract ore from the underground workings, including long hole, narrow vein, mechanized jumbo cut and fill, as well as jackleg cut and fill methods.
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