Two companies have been fined a total of $90,000 after two workers were injured on the job in separate incidents in Saskatchewan.
Both companies pleaded guilty to failing to provide an effective safeguard where a worker may contact a dangerous moving part of a machine, resulting in serious injury to a worker.
Rest-Well Mattress Company was fined just over $40,000 after entering a guilty plea in Regina provincial court on Dec. 1. Two additional charges against the Langley, B.C.-based company were stayed. Charges were laid after a worker’s head was pinched in the machine table he was repairing in June 2015.
The other company, Prince Albert Co-operative Association Limited, was fined $50,000 after pleading guilty in Big River provincial court on Monday. Two additional charges were stayed. Charges were laid after a worker’s hand came into contact with the blade of a table saw in May 2015.
