Saskatchewan company hit with $70K fine for 2021 workplace injury

A Saskatchewan company has been fined $70,000 in connection with a workplace injury in September of 2021.

On March 13, Sunterra Horticulture (Canada) Inc. pleaded guilty in Yorkton Provincial Court to one violation of the province’s occupational health and safety regulations. A second charge was withdrawn.

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According to the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, the charges arose from an incident that occurred Sept. 16, 2021 near Hyas, where a worker was badly hurt while attempting to dislodge a pallet and bale of peat moss.

Hyas is about 90 kilometres north of Yorkton.

The company was charged with 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.”

After the guilty plea, the court imposed a fine of $50,000 and a surcharge of $20,000.