GRANDE PRAIRIE, Alta. – Alberta’s labour ministry has laid 12 charges against D & J Isley & Sons Contracting Ltd., for its role in a vehicular accident that injured two employees more than two years ago. The incident occurred on Aug. 7, 2015, when an equipment operator was driving himself and another worker to the company’s Grande Prairie worksite in an all-terrain vehicle, according to an undated announcement posted on the Alberta Labour website in early Sept. 2017. When the vehicle reached an inclined road, it stalled and began to roll downhill; the brakes failed, so the equipment operator steered the vehicle into a ditch. On July 14 of this year, the provincial government charged D & J Isley with two violations of Alberta’s Occupational Health and Safety Act, four of the OHS Regulation and six of the OHS Code, the announcement stated. Charges included failing to ensure that equipment was free of defects, that workers were trained to operate equipment safely and that workplace hazards had been identified and eliminated or controlled.