Superior General Partner fined $70,000
Superior General Partner (formerly operating as Stittco Energy) has been fined $70,000. On May 24, 2016, a propane pump truck was parked overnight in a maintenance garage in Flin Flon, Man. During the evening, residual propane from the dispensing system of the pump truck unknowingly seeped into the garage. The following morning, a contracted mechanic was tasked with replacing faulty U-bolts. They crawled under the pump truck and lit an oxygen/acetylene cutting torch which caused an immediate explosion, destroying the pump truck and the garage. The worker suffered serious injuries.
Superior General Partner pleaded guilty to section 4(2)(d) of Manitoba’s Workplace Safety and Health Act to the charge of failing to ensure that persons who were not in its service were not exposed to risks to their safety and health arising out of, or in connection with, activities in the workplace.
Source: Government of Manitoba
