A commercial food processing company has been ordered to pay $330,000 after one of its workers became trapped in a smokehouse and died.
Ontario-based Sofina Foods Inc. was directed by a judge on Thursday to put the money toward a workplace training program.
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The decision comes a day after Sofina pleaded guilty to one workplace safety violation while the remaining 25 other charges against the company were withdrawn.
Sofina was charged after 32-year-old Samir Subedi died in March 2023.
Court heard he had gone to check the temperature of the gas-fired smokehouse, which had been loaded the night before with meat.
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Due to problems with the door’s safety mechanisms, Subedi became trapped in the smokehouse as the temperature soared to 92 C, and he died of heat exposure.
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