{"id":16767,"date":"2020-09-15T20:34:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T23:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=16767"},"modified":"2020-09-15T20:34:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T23:34:05","slug":"labour-department-investigating-workplace-fatality-in-lantz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=16767","title":{"rendered":"Labour department investigating workplace fatality in Lantz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;78&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LANTZ:<\/strong> The Department of Labour has confirmed there was a workplace incident resulting in a death of an employee in Lantz on Sept. 15.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shannon Kerr, spokesperson with the Labour department, told The Laker News they are investigating the incident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm we\u2019ve responded to a workplace fatality that occurred this morning in Lantz,&#8221; said Kerr. &#8220;A stop work order has been issued on the equipment involved in the incident.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;2&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Hants RCMP confirmed they responded to the scene and upon determining there was nothing criminal, they turned the investigation over to the Department of Labour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kerr said the department&#8217;s investigation is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have no further information to share at this time,&#8221; said Kerr.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;80&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANTZ: The Department of Labour has confirmed there was a workplace incident resulting in a death of an employee in Lantz on Sept. 15. Shannon Kerr, spokesperson with the Labour department, told The Laker News they are investigating the incident. &#8220;We can confirm we\u2019ve responded to a workplace fatality that occurred this morning in Lantz,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[965,12],"tags":[14,1433],"class_list":["post-16767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-hants","category-featured","tag-rcmp","tag-workplace-fatality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16767\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}