GRAND FALLS, N.B. – Walmart says it has pleaded guilty to three workplace safety charges in the death of a teenage worker in New Brunswick last year.
The retail giant was charged under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a 17-year-old employee at a store in Grand Falls was electrocuted on Jan. 5, 2011.
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Patrick Desjardins was using a floor buffer on a wet floor in a garage at the time.
Crown attorney Karen Lee Lamrock says Denis Morin, who was a supervisor at the store, also pleaded guilty to two charges under the act.
She says Walmart was fined $120,000 and Morin $1,056.
WorkSafeNB, the Crown agency responsible for the act, has said Desjardins was using an inappropriate floor polisher and a faulty extension cord when he died.
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