A company was fined $575,000 for a construction worker’s death - OHS Canada Magazine

A company was fined $575,000 for a construction worker’s death - OHS Canada Magazine

A B.C. Supreme Court justice ordered contractor J. Cote & Son Excavating to pay $575,000 last week after ruling the company’s criminal negligence caused the death of one employee and injured another. The sentence comes more than 13 years after the employees were crushed while replacing a storm sewer in Burnaby, B.C. On Oct. 11, 2012, pipe layers Thomas Richer and Jeff Caron were working in a newly excavated trench when a nearby retaining wall co…