FOG BLOG SAINT JOHN LOG: DARREL RICHARDS DIES AT 'AIM' RECYCLING PLANT, MP SAYS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

'Enough is enough,' MP says after 2nd death in 7 months at Saint John recycling plant First man to die was truck driver delivering shipment to metal recycling plant he latest death of an American Iron and Metal worker in Saint John has provoked calls for a shutdown of the waterfront scrap yard.

Coun. Gerry Lowe, whose ward includes the metal recycling company, said the city is helpless, but the province has to do something after Darrel Richards died from workplace injuries last week, the second person to die on the job at AIM in the past seven months.

"I was hoping that more would be done this time than just start it back up again," Lowe said.

Saint John–Rothesay MP Wayne Long said it's time the province suspended AIM's licence.

"Enough is enough," the Liberal said in a tweet. "After 2 deaths in the last 7 months it's time for AIM to end its operations in Saint John."

Labour council calls for shutdown

Long said he wants AIM out of the city, where west side residents have already had to put up with explosions at the yard.

Shawn Gorman Wetmore, the president of the Saint John District Labour Council, said it doesn't make sense there was no full stop-work order after Richards's death last week.

"I don't understand why the building isn't shut down," she said. "You just can't cut out an area of it and continue the plant working safely. And out of respect for this man, it should be shut down till they find out what comes out of it."

Comments by the province so far suggest the public won't learn anything about what happened at AIM for another year. Labour Minister Trevor Holder indicated he can't express any specific safety concerns until an investigation is done.