Worker dies at Suncor oilsands site after machinery sinks into muskeg

Worker dies at Suncor oilsands site after machinery sinks into muskeg

Alberta Occupational Health and Safety is investigating the death of a worker at an oilsands mine north of Fort McMurray. The worker was inside a piece of equipment last week when it became submerged in muskeg, it said. “It is always tragic when a worker dies on the job,” OH&S said in a written statement. Suncor Energy Inc. said the contractor had been operating heavy machinery near a water body — not a tailings pond — at its Fort Hills oilsands…