TORONTO — Great Northern Insulation (GNI), of Woodstock Ont., has been convicted and fined $125,000 after one of its workers suffered fatal injuries.
According to a court bulletin, the employer was convicted Feb. 25 of “failing to take reasonable precautions to protect a worker from the hazard of being struck by a moving vehicle not adequately immobilized when installing tire chains contrary to section 25(2)(h) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.”
The incident occurred Nov. 23, 2018. A young worker who worked out of GNI’s Gravenhurst, Ont. location and a coworker had just left a work site in Magnetawan in their truck because there was no room to park. They were going to head to another job site and were in the process of turning around at an intersection in Magnetewan when the driving conditions convinced them to install tire chains as the road was very slippery.
The workers were installing chains on the front driver side tire when the truck, which had not been properly immobilized, started rolling and sliding forward and fatally ran the victim over, before coming to a stop in a snowbank, indicates the bulletin.
Following a guilty plea, Justice of the Peace J. McMahon, in Provincial Offences Court in Parry Sound, fined the company.
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