Released on December 29, 2014
Donovan Belisle pleaded guilty to one count under occupational health and safety (OHS) legislation and was fined $2,030 in Weyburn Provincial Court on December 16, 2014.Belisle pleaded guilty to contravening subsection 133(8) of regulations (being a worker who operates a vehicle at a place of employment, and not having a clear view of the path to be travelled, did proceed when it was not safe to do so, and in the absence of a signal that it was safe to proceed, thereby causing serious injury to a worker). Belisle was fined $1,450 with a surcharge of $580.
Charges were laid following a January 12, 2013, incident where a worker was seriously injured on an oil drilling rig near Stoughton, when he was pinned between pieces of pipe that were being loaded onto the tines of a loader.
Since April 1, 2014, there have been 47 convictions for occupational health and safety violations with total fines of more than $531,000.
For more information on OHS prosecutions, please visit www.saskatchewan.ca/work.
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For more information, contact:
Amanda Fedorchuk
Labour Relations and Workplace Safety
Regina
Phone: 306-787-0279