Worker fell from a work platform
Saskatchewan employer Adler Firestopping Ltd. was fined $71,428.57, with a surcharge of $28,571.43, for a total amount of $100,000 after a worker suffered serious injuries in the workplace.
The incident happened on Nov. 28, 2022 on the Thunderchild First Nation in Saskatchewan.
A worker was seriously injured as a result of a fall from a work platform.
On September 3, 2024, Adler Firestopping Ltd. pleaded guilty in St. Walburg Provincial Court to one violation of The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 2020.
Adler Firestopping Ltd. was charged for contravening subsection 12-5 (2) (a) of the regulations or “being an employer fail to ensure that every scaffold is designed, constructed, erected, used and maintained so as to perform safely any task that the scaffold is required to perform, resulting in the serious injury of a worker,” said the Saskatchewan government.
Three other charges were withdrawn.
