The charge stemmed from an incident in Saskatchewan when a worker was badly injured after falling from a work platform. (File photo/650 CKOM)

By CKOM News

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Company ordered to pay $100,000 after worker injured in fall

Sep 13, 2024 | 11:33 AM

A Calgary-based company has been ordered to pay $100,000 after a workplace fall on the Thunderchild First Nation left a worker badly injured in 2022.

According to the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety, Alder Firestopping Ltd., which operates out of Calgary, Saskatoon and Vancouver, pleaded guilty to one violation of the province’s occupational health and safety regulations in a St. Walburg courtroom on September 3.

The violation related to the requirement for employers to ensure that scaffolding is designed, erected, used and maintained “so as to perform safely any task that the scaffold is required to perform,” the ministry explained.

The charge stemmed from an incident on November 28, 2022, when a worker was seriously injured after in a fall from a work platform.

The company was fined $71,428.57, along with a surcharge $28,571.43, for a total payment of $100,000.

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Three other charges were withdrawn.