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Company fined $500,000 for employee death as Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital was under construction

WATCH: Judge Brent Klause ordered the company to pay two $250,000 fines for a pair of infractions under the Occupational Health and Safety Act – Aug 6, 2021

Banff Constructors has been fined $500,000 after a 21-year-old employee was killed while working during construction of the Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital in 2016.

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Eric Ndayishimiye died after a 560-kilogram metal table cart fell on him.

He wasn’t operating the cart, which is used for drying and pouring concrete slabs.

Judge Brent Klause ordered the company to pay two $250,000 fines for a pair of infractions under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Banff Constructors was found guilty of failing to make arrangements for the use, handling and transport of trolleys in a manner that protects employees in April.

The second was for the death of an employee following a failure to provide necessary training and supervision.

Court heard the company paid the family $150,000 for compassionate reasons as well as covering the cost of Ndayishimiye’s funeral.

That’s on top of any Workers’ Compensation Board benefits the family would have received, as well as a $200,000 payment from life insurance coverage Banff Constructors put in place for employees.

The Crown was seeking a $1 million fine, which would’ve been one of the largest workplace fatality fine in Saskatchewan history.

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Krause noted that Banff Constructors is not a mom-and-pop operation, but one with more than 400 employees and that this was the first conviction the company has faced.

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