A Waterloo company has been fined $50,000 after a worker was paralyzed on the job.
On July 24, 2013 a worker was standing on a scaffold to apply stucco to a wall on Moorlands Crescent in Kitchener.
The worker fell from the scaffold 25 feet to the ground, and suffered a spinal injury causing paraplegia.
The Ministry of Labour investigated and found there wasn’t a guard rail on the scaffolding.
Hawksview Homes Ltd pled guilty to failing as a constructor to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by the regulation were carried out.
They were fined $50,000, plus a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge.
