Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Nine months after a construction worker was partly buried and injured after a wall collapse in a trench, the injured worker’s employer and supervisor were fined $125,000 and $5,000 respectively, on August 11, 2017.
A trenching accident happened on a golf course in Saskatchewan in 2008 during the installation of new water and sewer pipes. The Elkridge Golf and Conference Centre pleaded guilty to four charges after a worker was partially buried in a trench. They received a fine of $14,000.