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August 26, 2005
Construction firms and owners fined $140,000 in fatal and serious accidents
HALIFAX
Two Nova Scotia companies were given heavy fines and other penalties this month for safety violations that resulted in the death of one worker and injuries to two others.
Marid Industries Ltd. of Lower Sackville pleaded guilty Aug. 15 to a charge of failing to ensure one part of a building project was supported before proceeding with work on another section.
The charge stemmed from an accident that claimed the life of employee Sean Donovan, who was erecting structural steel at a site in Dartmouth’s Burnside Park in July 2004.
Donovan, 37, of New Victoria, N.S., was killed when a steel joint collapsed, causing he and another worker to fall eight metres to the ground. The other man was not seriously injured.
The company was fined $23,879.37 and ordered to pay a victim fine surcharge of $3,581.90.
Marid was also ordered to allocate another $31,120.23 to promote work safety programs, including $23,120.23 to go to the Nova Scotia Construction Safety Association and another $1,000 to pay for newspaper ads promoting workplace safety.
On Aug. 9 in Sheet Harbour, guilty pleas were entered on behalf of MacTara Ltd. to two charges involving electrical shocks that injured two employees at the firm’s Upper Musquodoboit lumber mill on Aug. 24, 2004, and Nov. 14, 2004.
The workers were injured because of the firm’s failure to lock out machinery that became energized while they were working on it.
MacTara was fined $17,500 and ordered to allocate $2,500 to safety education programs for the Aug. 24 offence. The firm was fined another $35,000 and ordered to make a $10,000 contribution to similar safety programs for the Nov. 14 offence.
Canadian Press
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