TORONTO – ThermoEnergy Structures Inc. of Braeside, Ont. has been convicted and fined $60,000 after a worker performing work for the company suffered a fatality resulting from the use of a bucket truck.
The incident occurred Aug. 7, 2019 at 3346 Stirling Marmora Rd., in Stirling-Rawdon, Ont. The conviction was handed down Feb. 28, 2022.
The company was fined following a guilty plea in provincial offences court in Belleville by Justice of the Peace Goffin-Boyd.
A contractor employed by ThermoEnergy Structures Inc. was assisting in the assembly and erection of an industrial type/style barn which involved working from the bucket of a bucket truck.
While assisting in the erection and assembly operations from the interior of the structure under construction, the worker fell from the bucket to the ground sustaining critical injuries, indicates a court bulletin.
The worker was taken to a nearby hospital where they were admitted to the ICU but on Aug. 21, 2019, the worker was pronounced dead from complications resulting from their injuries.
An investigation by the Ministry of Labour, Training and Skills Development determined the worker was not wearing fall protection at the time of the fall. Accordingly, the constructor failed to ensure the measures and procedures prescribed by s. 148(1)(e) were carried out at the project, contrary to s. 23(1)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, R.S.O 1990, c.O.1 as amended, the bulletin states.
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