SALMON ARM — A Salmon Arm company where a teenage employee was killed last month has been ordered to shut down its equipment until safety improvements are made.
The shut down order was issued after a WorkSafeBC inspection at Dinoflex, a rubber manufacturer plant, following the death of 19-year-old Shane Gorner. The teen was crushed by one of the plant’s compressors.
In an August 2013 WorkSafeBC report, an inspector found proper safeguards were not in place on the presses.
Back in 2011 during a routine inspection of the Salmon Arm site, WorkSafeBC says Dinoflex was found to be in contravention of six health and safety regulations.
The report included the company’s failure to regularly inspect machinery, work methods and practices that would prevent the development of unsafe working conditions.
WorkSafeBC says the company also failed to keep a record of injuries and accidents at the site. The company has yet to return our calls following the release of information from WorkSafeBC.
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