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The worker was seriously injured on a job site when a roof they were working on collapsed.

Posted: Feb 18, 2022 5:10 PM CT | Last Updated: 10 hours agoA plumbing company in northern Saskatchewan is being charged and fined after a worker fell through a roof on a work site in 2020 near Île-à-la-Crosse, about 600 km north of Saskatoon.

The company pleaded guilty to one charge of "failing to provide and maintain plant, systems of work and working environments that ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of the employer's workers, resulting in the serious injury of a worker."

 

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This is why the Westray Act isn’t doing its intended job. Now it’s about how much is your life worth to the bottom line of the company. Yes criminal negligence is much harder to prove vs. OHS violation, but too many companies are walking away scot free when workers die.

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If you watch the video, the lady in the wheelchair that the police horse trampled was a white supremacist. A few broken bones can be repaired, but she needs to be brought to justice for the stress caused to that poor horse having to trip over her

Pluming of the roof is hazardous.

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