Construction company fined after worker fatally injured by fall

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TORONTO — A worker at a small construction company was fatally injured after falling about five metres from a roof and the company and its director have been fined.

Following guilty pleas in provincial offences court in St. Thomas, Ont., VanHeughten Contractors Inc. was fined $85,000 and the company’s director Kyle VanHeughten was fined $32,500 by Justice of the Peace Susan Whelan.The company was convicted March 8. The court found the company failed to ensure the measures and procedures prescribed under section 26.1 ofOn the day of the incident, four workers were installing wooden roof trusses on top of framed walls on a construction project in Aylmer.

One worker was standing on a two-by-four inch wood strapping while nailing wood with a cordless framing nailer, indicates a court bulletin, adding the strapping broke and the worker fell 5.08 metres from the roof and was struck by the nailer, causing fatal injuries.

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