A Delhi-based company has been fined $54,500 in connection with an incident which left one of its workers with permanent injuries.
Southcoast IQF Inc. pleaded guilty last week to breaching the Occupational Health and Safety Act by failing to provide required equipment, materials or protective devices.
The charge related to an incident in which a piece of equipment jammed on Nov. 6, 2014.
According to the Ministry of Labour, workers at the facility were putting raw mushrooms onto a conveyor, which then dropped the mushrooms into a cutter.
One worker was tasked with clearing any jams of mushrooms that occurred in the machinery, with the use of a piece of PVC pipe.
The ministry says that on the day in question, that worker slipped and came into contact with the blades of the cutter, which had not been turned off.
Under Ontario’s health and safety laws, there should have been some sort of guard in place to protect the worker from the blades.
