Following a guilty plea in the Provincial Offences Court in Woodstock, Saputo Products Laitiers Canada S.E.N.C./Saputo Dairy Products Canada GP has been fined $79,500 and ordered to pay a 25% victim fine surcharge after a June 2023 incident in which a worker was critically injured while cleaning waste cheese from a conveyor drive roller groove.
On 4 June 2023, guards preventing access to in-running nip hazards were removed for cleaning, and the worker was injured by the running conveyor.
A Ministry of Labour investigation found the injury would not have occurred had a guard been in place, as required by section 25 of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments and section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
