A Saskatoon company has been fined after a worker had his arm amputated in a workplace accident on Canada Day 2015.
B.N. Steel & Metal was charged for violating Saskatchewan occupational health and safety regulations after the worker’s arm became entangled in a metal shredder.
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The company pleaded guilty on Thursday for failing to provide an effective safeguard where a worker may contact a dangerous moving part of a machine.
It was fined $43,000 in Saskatoon provincial court plus a surcharge of $17,200.
Two other charges were stayed in court.
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