Workplace fatality leads to $35K fine for Regina company

A Regina company has been fined a total of $35,000 in connection with a workplace fatality that occurred nearly two years ago.

According to the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, the incident occurred Feb. 14, 2018, near Pilot Butte. A worker was fatally injured after being thrown from a snowmobile.

Alsport Sales Inc., pleaded guilty Jan. 12 to one count under The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 1996.

The charge states the employer failed “to ensure that a worker is trained in all matters that are necessary to protect the health and safety of the worker when the worker is moved from one work activity or worksite to another that differs with respect to hazards, facilities or procedures, resulting in the death of a worker.”

The company was fined $25,000, with a surcharge of $10,000. Three other charges were withdrawn.