The two workers that were killed Tuesday at an oilsands construction site
in Canada's Alberta were Chinese citizens, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., the
energy company involved in the accident has confirmed.
Two workers were killed and four others injured in an accident Tuesday
afternoon at the company's Horizon oilsands construction site in northern
Alberta. All the six workers were from China, Real Doucet, senior vice president
of Oilsand, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd., told Xinhua in a telephone
interview Wednesday.
The accident occurred when the roof collapsed on a massive oil container
being built as part of the company's oilsands project north of Fort McMurray,
Alberta, he said.
The four injured are non-critical and two have been released and the other
two have been transferred to a hospital in provincial capital Edmonton, Doucet
said.
Canadian Natural Resources Ltd. has started an investigation and a team is in
place to determine the root cause of the accident,he said. Work at the tank has
stopped and the area around the accident has been isolated.