Here is a recent story of a fatality. There is little information available to this story.
A Canadian smelter said it has suspended
anode production at its aluminum smelter in Quebec while it investigates the
cause of a accident overnight that killed a worker at the facility during the
week of April 28, 2013.
The accident occurred early morning, a
company spokeswoman said the company will make no other details available while
it investigates the cause, she said.
The local union in Quebec, said the accident
victim was a woman.
'People in (the plant) are quite shaken.
They've been through a lockout, so it's a big family. They're very close to one
another,' said a union spokeswoman.
The anode operations will remain shut until
further notice. Aluminum production is not affected, the company spokeswoman
said.
Carbon anodes, which are made from petroleum
coke, liquid pitch and recycled carbon material, are used to pass an electrical
current through alumina to convert it into aluminum.
Update, the plant has reopened.
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