Lakeland Mills Disaster Archive

Understanding of the potential of sawdust as a combustible hazard has much improved since the explosions that leveled Lakeland Mills in April 2012 and Babine Forest Products three months earlier, a WorkSafe inspector told a coroner's inquest Thursday

PRINCE GEORGE — An inspection five months before a deadly explosion at a Prince George sawmill uncovered excessive amounts of pine wood dust, a coroner's inquest has heard.

A WorkSafe B.C.investigator took a coroner's inquest through his findings Tuesday into the explosion that destroyed the Lakeland Mills sawmill nearly three years ago, killing two workers and injuring more than 20 others.

Lakeland Mills is in the process of getting a fire safety plan approved by Prince George Fire Rescue, a coroner's inquest into the fatal explosion that rocked the operation's sawmill nearly three years ago heard Tuesday.

Ambulance personnel ventured no closer than Lakeland Mills' River Road entrance despite being assured four times by Prince George firefighters that it was safe to do so, an inquest into the explosion that rocked the operation's sawmill heard Monday.

A Prince George fire prevention officer found excessive amounts of pine wood dust in Lakeland sawmill's slasher area during an inspection five months prior to the April 2012 explosion that killed two men and injured 21 other employees, a coroner's in

A Prince George firefighter said one of the two men killed in the Lakeland Mills explosion nearly three years ago had to be loaded into the back of a pickup truck and driven from the scene to an ambulance stationed on River Road.

The explosion that destroyed the Lakeland Mills sawmill originated in a spot where equipment not rated for use in a high sawdust area was operating, a coroner's inquest into the disaster heard Friday. B.C.

The Opposition NDP put the Attorney General in their crosshairs over the handling of the current coroner's inquest into the Lakeland Mills explosion. Justice Minister Suzanne Anton fielded questions from B.C.

When Bruce Germyn first heard a bang he knew something serious had happened. A then six-year employee, Germyn was working the edger on the west side of the main floor at Lakeland Mills sawmill when, just after the 9:30 p.m.