Canadian Occupational Safety | Ontario-based Sofina Foods Inc. has been fined $330,000 following the death of one of its workers in a workplace incident.
The incident occurred on 2 March 2023, when 32-year-old Samir Subedi, an Edmonton-based worker, went to check the temperature of a gas-fired smokehouse. The smokehouse had been loaded with meat the previous night, according to a report from The Canadian Press (CP).
Subedi, a superintendent at the workplace, became trapped inside the smokehouse.
It was reported that the smokehouse’s emergency handle, designed to open the door from the inside, was broken. In its place was a door stopper that had not been approved by the company’s engineering team.
A temperature probe in the smokehouse registered a reading of 92°C. A co-worker later found Subedi unconscious inside the smokehouse.
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