HARBOUR GRACE, N.L. — A 27-year-old crew member of a Newfoundland fishing vessel is dead following an accident aboard the ship Friday evening.

Police say the man, originally from St. Anthony, died of his injuries at sea aboard the Katsheshuk II after being struck by a steel door around 8 p.m.

A growing mountain of evidence suggests that if we really want to do away with distracted driving, governments need to ban the use of hands-free cellphone systems in vehicles. But some safety experts wonder if that’s realistic.

Industrial Scientific Corporation has determined that the GasBadge Plus single gas instrument may not properly indicate a low battery condition resulting in a failure to alarm or instrument shut down. As a result, for safety reasons, Industrial Scientific is issuing a recall of all current GasBadge Plus instruments (v2.2 and earlier, manufactured prior to February 2012).

Shell Canada's recent winning bid to conduct deepwater oil exploration off Nova Scotia has renewed calls to establish a separate safety agency independent of the federal-provincial offshore regulator. The petroleum giant has committed to spending $970 million over six years in the hopes of finding oil in four deepwater parcels about 200 kilometres off the province's southwestern shore.