SASKATOON – Two companies and two individuals have been fined after inspections at worksites turned up workplace safety violations.
Ridge Riders Roofing pleaded guilty to five safety violations and Adam Hunt and Jacob Tootoosis each pleaded guilty to one violation after an inspection at a residential construction site on April 24, 2013.
The company was fined $4,140 for failing to ensure workers were using a fall protection system where they could fall three metres or more, failing to ensure workers were wearing approved headwear, failing to ensure competent and sufficient supervision and failing to ensure a portable ladder was secured.
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Four other charges against the company were stayed.
Hunt and Tootoosis were each fined $1,960 for failing to ensure workers were using a fall protection system where they could fall three metres or more. Ten other charges were stayed.
The charges were laid after an inspector found workers at the construction site were violating occupational health and safety regulations.
Silverhawk Construction of Saskatoon pleaded guilty for failing to ensure workers were using a fall protection system where they could fall three metres or more.
The charge was laid after an inspection found workers were on a roof in Saskatoon on Jan. 10, 2013 without using fall protection.
The company was fined $1,120. One additional charge was stayed.
Falls represent more than 12 per cent of all reported construction injuries.
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