Farm Boy has been fined $90,000 after a worker was injured at an Orléans warehouse in June 2021.
A justice of the peace issued the fine to the grocery store chain following a guilty plea, plus a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge, Ontario’s Ministry of Labour stated in a Monday news release.
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According to a description of the incident, two workers were taking apart a walk-in cooler at the warehouse when one of them used a scissor lift platform to get on top of the cooler to unscrew metal plates attached to roofing panels. The roof then collapsed and the worker fell more than three metres onto a concrete floor.
The worker, who was not wearing fall protection, suffered injuries as a result of the fall, the release stated.
“Although the employer had a written fall protection policy and provided workers with fall protection equipment and the worker had received general working at heights training, the employer did not provide them with site-specific working at heights training,” the news release stated. “Further, no information or instruction was provided to the worker with respect to how to safely dismantle the cooler.”
The money from the victim fine surcharge to be paid by Farm Boy will go to a provincial fund to assist victims of crime, the ministry said.
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