Canada Global(Web News)The start of the trial against Eastway Tanks, the Ottawa tanker company where six workers died in an explosion two years ago, has been delayed, with trial dates set for weeks after that. are also under discussion now.
The month-long trial against Eastway Tank and its owner, Neil Green, was scheduled to begin March 4 at the Ontario Court of Justice in Ottawa.
The province’s Ministry of Labor charged Green and the company with three counts under the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act, including allegedly failing to take adequate precautions to protect workers.
Rick Bastian, Etienne Mabiala, Danny Bell, Kayla Ferguson and Russell McLellan died in the Jan. 13, 2022, explosion — Ottawa’s worst mass shooting in decades. On Monday, lawyers in the
case asked Justice Mitch Hoffman. Attorneys meeting in open court for a trial management conference with the
attorneys agreed that dates for the first week of the trial, March 4 to 8, “could be granted.”
