Bruce Power is celebrating a milestone with the Restart of Bruce A.
The company has reached 10 million hours without a lost-time injury.
Vice-President of Bruce A Restart, John Sauger says he’s worked on a number of large projects around the world and can not recall one of this size achieving such a record.
Sauger says there are more than 2200 people working on the project, performing more than 145 thousand activities.
Bruce Power’s President and CEO Duncan Hawthorne says this is one of Bruce Power’s most satisfying accomplishments.
He says it only takes one second for an accident to occur.
Hawthorne says based on feedback from the Ministry of Labour, no one can point to a construction project that has achieved this kind of performance.
One of the project workers, Civil Superintendent with Crossby Dewar, Gerry Boire says he’s been on a lot of jobs where people have been seriously injured.
Work is underway to restore the structural, mechanical and electrical systems around the 16 new steam generators.
Unit 2 is scheduled to return to service in 2009, followed by Unit 1 in 2010.
Together they will generate another 1500 megawatts of electricity, or enough to supply twice the daily needs of a city the size of Hamilton.
