Owner of Big Sky Farms fined in 2014 workplace fatality

Olysky Limited Partnership pleaded guilty to a violation after a 2014 workplace fatality. The company was fined $98,000 in Humboldt provincial court last month.

A charge of failing to ensure the operator of a unit of powered mobile equipment uses a seat-belt or other restraining device was laid against Olysky Limited Partnership which was operating as Big Sky Farms.

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READ MORE: Tractor crash leaves Saskatchewan man dead

On April 23, 2014, a worker was thrown from the cab of a tractor west of Burr, Sask.

Humboldt RCMP said the 19-year-old man was driving on a grid road when the bucket on the front-end loader came in contact with the road ejecting him from the cab.

Emergency services were called by a passing motorist but the man, from Muenster, was pronounced dead.

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) legislation requires all workers be trained before operating powered mobile equipment on the job and employers must keep records.