Bruce Power has been hit with an 80 thousand dollar fine for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Act when a worker was injured.
Back on October 9th, 2008, the vault area of the company’s Tiverton plant was under construction.
A crew from a company called Black and McDonald was working on this construction project, and while they were doing repairs, a Bruce Power electrician on an overhead catwalk dropped an electrical panel.
It fell over six meters to hit a Black and McDonald worker on the head.
The worker sustained minor head injuries.
Ministry of Labour Communications Specialist Matt Blajer says their investigation found that the area under the overhead catwalk did not have signs posted to warn workers of the dangers overhead.
Bruce Power pleaded guilty to failing to ensure that the work area was protected by signs to warn workers of the overhead danger.
The fine was imposed by Justice of the Peace Robert Gay in an Owen Sound court on January 14th.
Blajer says the maximum fine for such a violation is 500 thousand dollars.
In addition to the fine, the court imposed a 25-per-cent victim fine surcharge, as required by the Provincial Offences Act.
