Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (October 2016)
A judge fines a farm owner $18,000 on August 26, 2016, in connection with a fatality in 2015.
Blog Post #1381 – Migrant Worker Killed by Coronavirus on an Ontario Farm
Excerpt from the Summer 2022 Edition of the OH&S Canada magazine
Scottlynn Sweet Pac Growers in Vittoria, Ontario, plead guilty to health and safety violations after one of its workers contracted Covid-19 and died. It was fined $125,000 plus a 25% victim fine surcharge. The maximum fine the court could have imposed was $1.5 million.
Blog Post #821 – RJM Farms Inc. Fined $82,500 in Death of Worker
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
The death of a migrant farm worker has resulted in a fine of $82,500 to a potato farm after the worker was crushed by a potato hopper assembly.