LSI Transport fined $40,000

Worker injured in moving parts of a machine

On Nov. 7, LSI Transport NWT Limited appeared in the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories in Yellowknife and was sentenced for offences under the Northwest Territories’ Safety Act.

 

The prosecutor and counsel for LSI Transport NWT Limited jointly proposed a sentence of a global fine of $40,000. The Judge accepted the joint sentencing proposal, along with the recommendation for a victim of crime surcharge in the amount of 15 per cent of the fine.

 

The conviction stems from an incident on July 10, 2017 at a work site on Highway #3 south of Yellowknife.

 

In June, the Workers’ Safety and Compensation Commission filed five charges against the company and supervisor Richard Germain, which included the failure to:

 

•provide an effective safeguard to prevent a worker from coming into contact with a dangerous moving part of a machine

•ensure that supervisors had completed an approved regulatory familiarization program

•ensure that workers are trained in matters necessary to protect their health and safety at a work site, particularly with respect to working safely near or with moving parts of machinery

•install sufficiently audible alarm systems on machinery with moving parts to provide workers with timely notice of imminent start-up

•ensure that the machine was locked out and remained locked out before workers begin maintenance, testing or repair work.

 

Source: Workers' Safety and Compensation Commission of the Northwest Territories and Nunavut