Charges stem from a 2018 incident
Drilling rig company Bonanza Drilling was fined $50,000 after pleading guilty to one count under The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 1996 in Rosetown Provincial Court in Saskatchewan.
On Aug. 13, the Brooks, Alberta-based company pleaded guilty to contravening clause 12(a) of the regulations, admitting that, being an employer, it failed in the provision and maintenance of a plant, systems of work and working environments that ensure, as far as reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of the employer’s workers, resulting in the injury of a worker.
Charges root from a Feb. 17, 2018 incident near Herschel, Saskatchewan, where a worker sustained serious injuries after falling from a walkway while cleaning a rig.
The company was fined $35,714.28 plus a surcharge of $14,285.72. One other charge was withdrawn.
“Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, in partnership with the Workers’ Compensation Board, supports and promotes Mission: Zero – zero workplace injuries, zero fatalities and zero suffering. We are all responsible for keeping ourselves and each other safe and healthy at work,” said the Saskatchewan government.
Recently, food manufacturers Fine Choice Foods and Punjab Milk Foods were separately fined after separate incidents that also resulted in injuries to workers.
