Wind (onshore) incidents recorded in Canada, with what happened, the contributing factors and the lessons, each with its sources.
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A man in his forties died after a fall while carrying out tasks inside a wind turbine on the Pohénégamook-Picard-Saint-Antonin-Wolastokuk (PPAW) construction site, in the chemin Champoux sector, on 27 September 2026. Emergency services attended and he was...
A fire broke out at the top of a wind turbine tower at the Pubnico Point Wind Farm in West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, Canada, in the evening. By the time fire crews arrived, the nacelle, hub and blades were fully alight. Firefighters were unable to reach the...
On 16 March 2026 a blade detached from a turbine at the Wolfe Island Wind Farm in Ontario, Canada, after a weekend of powerful gusts. The nose cone also detached and was reported to have landed about 100 metres away. TransAlta said the site was taken offline...
The record behind each entry: the manufacturer, integrator and operator, root cause, failure mode, downtime, losses and every source.
At approximately 5:03pm on a Saturday evening, the hub of a wind turbine at the 99MW Erie Shores Wind Farm in Ontario detached from the tower and fell to the ground with all three blades still attached. The site, owned and operated by Capstone Infrastructure,...
Tower 33 at the Halkirk 2 wind project near Castor fell on 8 November 2024 while the recently constructed site was being brought online and introducing power to Alberta's grid. The collapse caused a complete loss of the tower and a suspension order for the...
A worker died on 18 July at a wind farm construction site near Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada, in what officials described as a workplace incident. Following an investigation, provincial workplace safety authorities imposed a fine of CA$25,000 on Windturbine...
A short published report says a nacelle and rotor fell off a Vestas turbine at a wind farm in Canada. The project developer was reported to have paused operations and remaining construction. The wind farm, the turbine model and the cause were not stated in...
A pilot truck driver was fatally crushed at the Neweg Energy Project wind farm construction site in the Springdale area, east of Sussex, New Brunswick, Canada, after a six-axle transport dolly, with a gross weight of more than 27,000 kilograms, became...
On the evening of 15 June 2023, a wind turbine near Muirkirk Line, at 20275 Duart Road, was seen on fire. A video given to local media showed the turbine already burning when lightning struck it, with thunder in the background, thick black smoke, and burning...
A fire was reported in the nacelle of a wind turbine at Capital Power's Kingsbridge 1 Wind Farm, two concessions north of Goderich, Ontario. It was spotted around 6:30 a.m. The main blaze in the nacelle was reported out by 9 a.m., though flames continued down...
On the evening of 15 June 2023, firefighters attended a fire at Tower 2 of the Gesner wind farm on Duart Road in Muirkirk, east of Chatham. Saturn Power said the probable cause was a lightning strike and that the fibreglass nacelle ignited. Fire officials...
Lakeshore OPP are investigating damage to wind turbines at two locations, which police have asked the public to treat as vandalism. The first case was reported on 4 April. Damage was reported on the transformer of a wind turbine, a part police said is...
A 29 June 2023 report said that two wind turbines had caught fire in western Ontario. The article text was not available, so the date of the fires, the site, any injuries, the extent of damage, the response and the cause are not known.
Recharge News reported that a turbine collapse occurred at the 167MW Kent Hills wind farm in New Brunswick, Canada. According to the report, an investigation found 'deficiencies' in the original foundation design and uncovered cracks, and the developer,...
In October 2021 a Vestas turbine tower in phase two of the Kent Hills 1 and 2 site near Moncton, Albert County, New Brunswick, Canada, collapsed because of what was identified as a bad foundation. KHLP, operator for owner TransAlta Renewables, said it found...
On a Saturday morning in April 2019, residents near Pontypool in the City of Kawartha Lakes, Ontario, reported hearing a loud screeching noise from a wind turbine. One of the turbine's blades, reported to weigh about 5,400 kilograms and measure 45 metres...
A wind turbine caught fire at the Pubnico Point Wind Energy Center in West Pubnico, Nova Scotia, operated and owned by NextEra Energy. The fire broke out in the afternoon and burned for about two hours, scattering flaming debris around the site. A landowner...
On 4 May 2018, the tip of one blade on a 1.8 MW Vestas V80 turbine at the Huron Wind project broke in high winds and was left dangling. The turbine stands just off Bruce Road 20, north of Tiverton, near Bruce Power's off-site visitors centre. Bruce Road 20...
Local media in Ontario, Canada reported in July 2018 that a report suggested a wind turbine project may have been to blame for a large forest fire in the Parry Sound area. Only the headline and summary were available to the register, so the size and duration...
In January 2018, a wind turbine at the Raleigh wind facility in Chatham-Kent, Ontario, snapped in half and collapsed. The site operator, TerraForm, said the failure was caused by a single faulty blade. Following the collapse, the company halted operation of...
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