A Sudbury-area company and a supervisor were recently fined $130,000 and $10,000 respectively in connection with a 2004 bridge collapse in Sudbury, Ontaro.
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A Sudbury-area company and a supervisor were recently fined $130,000 and $10,000 respectively in connection with a 2004 bridge collapse in Sudbury.
In May 2004 a bridge over Lorne Street was under rehabilitation. A temporary support structure was built by Nor Eng Construction & Engineering, with Glenn Bot, the company president, as supervisor. The support was to hold the bridge up while road traffic flowed underneath. On May 7, 2004, the south end of the bridge collapsed onto the roadway below. No one was injured.
After a trial Nor Eng was convicted on June 20, 2008, as an employer, of:
• Failing to ensure the temporary support structure was constructed so as to support or resist all loads and forces to which it was likely to be subjected,
• Failing to ensure the temporary support structure was adequately braced to prevent any movement that may affect its stability or cause its failure or collapse,
• Failing to take the reasonable precaution of ensuring that a quality verification engineer was retained and inspected the temporary support structure,
• Failing to take the reasonable precaution of ensuring the temporary support structure was constructed and/or installed in conformity with design drawings,
• Failing to take the reasonable precaution of ensuring that modifications to the design of the temporary support structure were approved by the design engineer.
Glenn Bot was convicted, as a supervisor, of offences corresponding to the fourth and fifth counts.
The fines were levied Aug. 13, reports the Ministry of Labour. In addition to the fines, the court imposed a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge on the total.
DCN News Services
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