Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development | Following a guilty plea in Provincial Offences Court, Hamilton, Janco Steel Ltd. has been fined $200,000 and ordered to pay a 25% victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act.
It follows an April 2022 incident which saw a worker being fatally struck by a large industrial forklift.
On the day of the incident, a worker employed by Janco Steel Ltd. was fatally struck by an industrial forklift being operated inside the plant.
The worker was operating an overhead crane, offloading a large steel coil from a transport truck to a weight scale.
While performing the task and looking up at the load, the worker walked backwards into an interior driveway where a large industrial forklift was travelling.
The operator of the forklift did not see the worker and could not see the area immediately in front of the coil being moved by the worker.
The forklift operator was driving two-to-three kilometers per hour and immediately stopped the forklift when another worker yelled, but the forklift had already fatally struck the operator of the overhead crane.
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