An inquest into the 2019 workplace death of Mark Paul Joseph Beskorowany has been scheduled for this September.
Beskorowany died on Aug. 21, 2019, following injuries sustained while working at a surface mining site in River Valley. An inquest into his death is mandatory under the Coroners Act.
Announced by Dr. Harry Mikael Voogjarv, the regional supervising coroner for the North Region Sudbury office, the inquest will take place via videoconference, starting at 9:30 a.m. Sept. 15, 2025.
The inquest is expected to last five days and will hear from six witnesses.
Bonnie Goldberg will be the presiding officer and Alessandra Hollands will be the inquest counsel.
At the time of the incident, the Ministry of Labour indicated Beskorowany was employed by Consbec, a mining and construction contractor located in Val Caron, a Sudbury-area community.
According to the ministry, Beskorowany was critically injured while drilling in a quarry. No additional information was released about the circumstances surrounding the death.
The inquest will examine the circumstances surrounding Beskorowany’s death. Statistics available from the Ministry of Labour website for 2019 showed his was the only mining-related fatality in Ontario that year.
During an inquest, a coroner or forensic pathologist will carry out a death investigation, which aims to understand how and why a person died.
Five questions must be answered: who (identity of the deceased); when (date of death); where (location of death); how (medical cause of death); and by what means (natural causes, accident, homicide, suicide or undetermined).
The jury may then make recommendations aimed at preventing further deaths.
— With files from Sudbury.com
