Log home builder ordered to pay $100,000 • Owner of construction company fined $1,320 • Grocery store fined $80,000 after worker injured
Log home builder ordered to pay $100,000
BRAGG CREEK, ALTA. — M&H Wood Specialties, a log home builder, was fined $1,000 plus a $150 victim fine surcharge and ordered to make a payment of $98,850 to Professional Medical Associates after one of its workers was injured. On Dec. 4, 2006, the worker, who was walking on a floor joist, lost his balance and fell about three metres into the basement.
Owner of construction company fined $1,320
WEYBURN, SASK. — The owner of a construction firm pled guilty to two charges under Saskatchewan’s Occupational Health and Safety Regulations and was fined a total of $1,320. Don Hemphill, owner of Cambary Construction, failed to provide and/or require workers to use appropriate footwear ($400 fine plus $80 victim surcharge) and failed to ensure workers use a fall protection system ($600 fine plus $240 victim surcharge). The charges stemmed from a proactive, routine inspection by provincial safety officers.
Grocery store fined $80,000 after worker injured
TORONTO — An Ontario court has levied an $80,000 fine on Sobeys Capital Incorporated after a forklift driver broke his leg. On Oct. 10, 2008, the worker was using a small forklift to unload skids of ice cream from a truck parked at the loading dock at a Sobeys grocery store. The worker used a dock bridge — a metal plate attached to the dock floor — to span the gap between the dock and the trailer. When the worker drove the forklift across the dock bridge, it bounced and came to rest 15 centimetres above the trailer bed. The worker picked up a skid of ice cream with the forklift and, while reversing out of the trailer, his leg became jammed between the forklift and raised dock plate and was broken. The Ministry of Labour found the dock bridge had not been installed according to the manufacturer’s instructions or properly maintained.
BRAGG CREEK, ALTA. — M&H Wood Specialties, a log home builder, was fined $1,000 plus a $150 victim fine surcharge and ordered to make a payment of $98,850 to Professional Medical Associates after one of its workers was injured. On Dec. 4, 2006, the worker, who was walking on a floor joist, lost his balance and fell about three metres into the basement.
Owner of construction company fined $1,320
WEYBURN, SASK. — The owner of a construction firm pled guilty to two charges under Saskatchewan’s Occupational Health and Safety Regulations and was fined a total of $1,320. Don Hemphill, owner of Cambary Construction, failed to provide and/or require workers to use appropriate footwear ($400 fine plus $80 victim surcharge) and failed to ensure workers use a fall protection system ($600 fine plus $240 victim surcharge). The charges stemmed from a proactive, routine inspection by provincial safety officers.
Grocery store fined $80,000 after worker injured
TORONTO — An Ontario court has levied an $80,000 fine on Sobeys Capital Incorporated after a forklift driver broke his leg. On Oct. 10, 2008, the worker was using a small forklift to unload skids of ice cream from a truck parked at the loading dock at a Sobeys grocery store. The worker used a dock bridge — a metal plate attached to the dock floor — to span the gap between the dock and the trailer. When the worker drove the forklift across the dock bridge, it bounced and came to rest 15 centimetres above the trailer bed. The worker picked up a skid of ice cream with the forklift and, while reversing out of the trailer, his leg became jammed between the forklift and raised dock plate and was broken. The Ministry of Labour found the dock bridge had not been installed according to the manufacturer’s instructions or properly maintained.
