Construction company charged for worklpace death
Posted Feb 18, 2015 01:43:06 PM.
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Occupational health and safety officers have charged a construction company after the workplace death of a 21-year-old man in November 2013.
Alan Fraser died after falling six stories from a building under construction by Parkland Construction. He was cleaning up on the sixth floor of the building in Clayton Park and fell from the edge.
The department of labour immediately stopped work at the site and launched an investigation.
Parkland Construction has been charged under the Occupational Health and Safety Act with lack of fall protection when working at an elevation of three metres or greater, lack of a safe work plan, lack of fall protection training, and failure to ensure a chute or other safe method is used to lower rubbish or debris
And a supervisor with the company has been charged with lack of fall protection when working at an elevation of three metres or greater and failure to take every precaution to protect an employee’s health
“This has been a difficult time for the family,” said labour minister Kelly Regan in a press release. “I want to thank them for their patience and understanding while our officers took the time to find out exactly what happened.”
The charges will be prosecuted by the province’s special prosecution section, and the department of labour says penalties for a workplace fatality include fines and — in some cases — jail.
An arraignment date has been set for March 25.
