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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, May 10, 2004 ::
Worker gets $15,000 fine for job fatality By JANE SIMS, London Free Press
A man who ran over a co-worker with a front-end loader has been fined $15,000 in one of Ontario's largest workplace penalties against an individual. Ross Hayter was fined $15,000, plus a 25-per-cent surcharge, after pleading guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice in London to operating equipment in an unsafe way.
The charge followed an accident at a London garbage-handling facility three years ago that ultimately led to the death of Jim Heard, 58.
An Ontario Labour Ministry prosecutor told Justice Gregory Pockele fellow workers had described Hayter's driving to ministry inspectors as 'rammy,' 'reckless' and 'always in a rush.'
Hayter's former employer, Canadian Waste Management Systems Inc., now Waste Management of Canada Corp., was fined $300,000 last week, plus a 25-per-cent surcharge, for failing to have a competent person operate equipment.------------------------------------------- posted 6:59 AM :: reference link ::
