KITCHENER, Ont. – Maple Leaf Foods Inc. has been fined $200,000 for two separate workplace injuries at its Kitchener factory.
In the first incident on July 26, 2010 a worker had his arm crushed while removing a jam from a cardboard box machine.
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On Dec. 29 of that year a worker at the same factory had their hand pulled into a conveyor system after dislodging a piece of plastic stuck in a machine.
The province says an Ontario judge has fined the company $100,000 for each incident under Ontario’s workplace safety law.
The court also imposed a mandatory 25-per-cent fine surcharge that will go to a provincial fund assisting crime victims.
Maple Leaf Foods announced last year it would close its plant and distribution centre in Kitchener by 2014.
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