Common Motors of Canada has been fined $325,000 within the falling demise of a employee on the automaker’s St. Catharines Propulsion Plant.

The automaker, in the Ontario Courtroom of Justice in St. Catharines, Ont., pleaded responsible to failing “to take each precaution cheap within the circumstances, together with making certain the employee used an ample technique of fall safety, opposite to … the Occupational Well being and Security Act.”

The incident occurred Oct. 22, 2021 when the employee fell 2.86 metres (9 ft) whereas he and one other employee had been changing a pneumatic cylinder on a milling machine.

One particular person was working contained in the machine whereas one other was on high. The employee on the highest was not sporting any fall safety, in keeping with the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Coaching and Abilities Improvement.

“We had been heartbroken to lose Dan Sevcik, who was a part of the GM household for 47 years and proceed to supply our sympathy and assist to his household,” GM Canada stated in a press release. “GM Canada stays dedicated to security in any respect of our amenities and cooperated absolutely to deliver this matter to an early decision.”

As a part of its ruling, the courtroom additionally imposed a 25-per-cent victim-fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a particular provincial authorities fund to help victims of crime.