Worker was injured while using electrostatic paint gun
Saskatchewan employer Bourgault Industries Ltd. o/a Highline Manufacturing Ltd. has been fined $65,000 after one of its workers was injured in the workplace.
The incident happened on June 22, 2022, in Vonda, Sask.
On the day, a worker was seriously injured while flushing highly flammable solvent through an electrostatic paint gun.
The employer pleaded guilty in Saskatoon Provincial Court to one violation of The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 2020 on July 22, 2024.
Bourgault Industries Ltd. o/a Highline Manufacturing Ltd. was fined for contravening clause 3-1 (a) of the regulations or “being an employer, fail to comply with the duties of an employer at a place of employment including the provision and maintenance of a plant, systems of work and working environments that ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of the employers workers, resulting in the serious injury of a worker,” said the Saskatchewan government.
Two other charges were withdrawn.
