{"id":348583,"date":"2025-12-16T09:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348583\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T09:16:13","slug":"1-dead-after-fall-of-ground-incident-at-saskatchewan-potash-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/348583\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead after \u2018fall of ground\u2019 incident at Saskatchewan potash mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>An employee has died after an incident at the K3 potash mine in Esterhazy, Sask.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765485674_689_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a news release, the Mosaic Company said a \u201cfall of ground incident,\u201d which is a collapse of rock or earth in an underground mine, took place early Monday morning and fatally injured a worker.<\/p>\n<p>The company said no other injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765813388_386_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMosaic\u2019s Emergency Response Team was activated following the incident. The site has now been secured and all mining activity has been temporarily halted,\u201d the release said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA full investigation is underway and Mosaic is working closely with all regulatory authorities. Support services are being provided through the company\u2019s Employee and Family Assistance Program.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11578076\/rob-reiner-wife-michele-reiner-dead\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765876573_612_CP216344860.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tRob Reiner and his wife found dead in their Los Angeles home\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11577307\/canada-winter-storm-rainfall-snowstorm-dec-14\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/1765876573_811_ns-weather.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tWinter storms, rain and snow walloping Canada. Here\u2019s where you\u2019ll see it\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mosaic went on to say that its thoughts go out to their colleague\u2019s friends and family, and to request privacy for the family.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Esterhazy is considered Mosaic\u2019s flagship potash site. The company says the entire Esterhazy complex is the world\u2019s largest potash operation.<\/p>\n<p>While the K1 and K2 mines have previously been mined for decades, the new K3 mine was completed in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size An employee has died after an incident at the K3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,151677,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-348583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-esterhazy-mine","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=348583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}