Fraserview Cedar Products Ltd. and Fraserview Re-manufacturing Inc. are being sued for unspecified damages as a result of one of the many recent mill fires in B.C. in the past few years.
591957 B.C. Ltd. owned a five-acre property in Surrey near the intersection of 144 Street and 66 Avenue on November 8, 2010, when the mill went up in flames as a result of what the property owner claims is the defendants’ negligence, according to a notice of civil claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court November 6.
591957 B.C. Ltd. claims that the cause of the fire was sawdust ignited by workers operating equipment and that those workers failed to propertly or adequately maintain ignitable combustible materials.
Mill fires have become common in B.C. in recent years.
Fire levelled the former Tembec planer mill in Cranbrook on November 1. That followed a fire in a Maple Ridge cedar mill on August 26.
Two workers were killed in an explosion and fire at Prince George’s Lakeland Mills sawmill in April.
An explosion also destroyed the Babine Forest Products mill in Burns Lake and killed two people in January.
