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Courts Impose More Than $14,000 in Fines for Worker Injury and Safety Violations

Released on May 6, 2014

Cosmopolitan Industries Ltd. of Saskatoon pleaded guilty to one count under occupational health and safety legislation and was fined $14,000 in Saskatoon Provincial Court on April 28, 2014.

The company pleaded guilty to:
  • contravening section 139 of the regulations (failure to ensure that before a worker undertakes the maintenance of a machine that the machine is locked out and remains locked out during that activity if not doing so would put the worker at risk and did thereby cause a serious injury to a worker) and was fined $10,000 with a $4,000 surcharge.
 The company was charged after a serious injury occurred in Saskatoon on January 5, 2012.  A worker was performing maintenance on a trash conveyor and fell nine feet to the ground.  One additional charge was stayed.

In a separate matter, Darren McKenzie of Regina pleaded guilty to one count under occupational health and safety legislation and was fined $360 in Regina Provincial Court on April 24, 2014.

Mr. McKenzie pleaded guilty to:
  • contravening clause 116(2)(a) of the regulations (failure to comply with The Occupational Health and Safety Act, 1993, and its associated regulations, by failing to use a fall protection system at a work area where he could have fallen three metres or more) and was fined $300 with a $60 surcharge.
 The conviction relates to an incident in Regina which occurred on April 28, 2011.  An Occupational Health Officer observed three workers working on a roof of a building in violation of occupational health and safety legislation. 

In the first month of 2014-15, there have been 17 convictions for occupational health and safety violations with total fines of nearly $45,000.

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For more information, contact:

Laura McKnight
Labour Relations and Workplace Safety
Regina
Phone: 306-787-0355

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