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It is “completely unacceptable” for the provincial government to leave potash miners in the dark by taking more than a year to investigate the underground accident that killed 29-year-old Chad Wiklun last summer, according to the president of the union representing workers at Agrium Inc.’s Vanscoy mine.

The Calgary-based company and United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7552 completed a joint investigation of the Aug. 8, 2016 accident “in a few weeks” but the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety has refused even to say when its probe will be completed, Darrin Kruger said Wednesday in an interview.

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“It impacted many of us in a very profound way, and we don’t know what we don’t know,” said the union president, a 22-year veteran of the potash industry who raced to the mine west of Saskatoon after learning about the accident.

“So that breeds — I won’t say fear, but uncertainty. What’s going on? What’s the outcome? We want closure.”