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July 28, 2010
Tri City Materials fined after worker injured
KITCHENER, Ont.
Tri City Materials Ltd., a company that works with aggregates, was fined $60,000 on July 6 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act that caused an injury to a worker.
On Dec. 30, 2008, a worker was cleaning out a trailer that acted as a hopper for various materials. The truck attached to the trailer was left running because the hopper’s chute needed a source of power to remain open. During the cleaning process, another worker turned off the truck. This closed the hopper’s chute gate, which caught the first worker’s leg.
A Ministry of Labour investigation found that the company’s procedure for safely cleaning the trailer required that it be locked out with its chute gate manually wedged open. The worker was not made familiar with this procedure.
Tri City Materials Ltd. pleaded guilty to failing to acquaint the worker with the hazards associated with cleaning out the trailer.
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