Saskatoon company fined $91K in workplace fatality

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Basic Truck and Trailer Repair was fined $91,000 in Saskatoon provincial court in a 2018 workplace incident that resulted in the death of a 61-year-old man.

On Feb.

3, the company pleaded guilty to failing “to ensure that where a worker may be required or permitted to perform maintenance, repairs or other work on or under an elevated part of a unit of powered mobile equipment, the elevated part is securely blocked to prevent accidental movement, resulting in the death of a worker.”Basic Truck and Trailer Repair was fined $65,000 with a $26,000 surcharge.

 

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