Public Advisory: Occupational Health and Safety Charges Laid Against Skir Enterprises Inc.Public Advisory: Occupational Health and Safety Charges Laid Against Skir Enterprises Inc.

A Charlottetown-based company, 101046 P.E.I. Inc. (Label Recycling), pleaded guilty to two Occupational Health and Safety Act charges and was ordered to pay a total of $75,000 after a worker had both legs severed by a hydraulic cardboard baler. The court accepted a joint recommendation, with $2,500 in fines for each offence and a $70,000 penalty payable…

Irving Shipbuilding Inc. was sentenced in Halifax provincial court to a total penalty of $150,000 after pleading guilty to one Occupational Health and Safety Act charge for failing to create a safe snow-removal procedure. The case also required a two-phase safety review over two years and included a $75,250 donation to the Nova Scotia Occupational Health…