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Company pleads guilty to workplace safety charge in Edmonton worker’s smokehouse death

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Sofina Foods enters guilty plea in workplace death
A food processing company is waiting for its sentence after pleading guilty in an incident where a worker died. The employee had been trapped in a smokehouse at a Sofina Foods plant in Edmonton. Erik Bay has the details – Jun 18, 2025

A commercial food processing company has pleaded guilty to a workplace safety charge after an Edmonton worker became trapped in a smokehouse and died.

The Crown has asked for 25 other charges to be withdrawn against Ontario-based Sofina Foods Inc.

A judge has yet to rule on a sentence.

The company was charged after 33-year-old Samir Subedi died in March 2023.

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Subedi had gone to check the temperature of the smokehouse and was trapped inside.

He was found by a co-worker and later died due to heat exposure.

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