Judge imposes fine to University of Guelph after worker injured while unloading soil | 24CA News

An Ontario choose has fined the University of Guelph after a employee was injured on campus.

In a news launch, the college pled responsible to a cost of violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act on Aug. 23 and was fined $50,000.

The employee was unloading 20 bails of soil from a truck on May 18, 2021 when a pump truck hauling the soil rolled ahead. They say the employee jumped off the mechanical liftgate and landed on the bottom leading to critical accidents.

An investigation by the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training, and Skills Development decided that the employee didn’t obtain adequate coaching to correctly function the pump truck and liftgate.

In addition to the nice, the college will even pay a 25 per cent sufferer nice surcharge which is credited to a particular provincial authorities fund to help victims of crime.