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Mine Contracting and Engineering Company Fined 110000 after Workplace Injury near MatachewanCementation Canada Inc. 181 Bay Street Suite 2100 Toronto Ontario. Cementation Canada Inc. is an underground mine contracting and engineering company with offices in North Bay and Sudbury.Following a guilty plea in the Ontario Court of Justice Kirkland Lake Cementation Canada Inc. was fined 110000 by Justice Catherine Mathias Crown Counsel Neil Gobardhan.The court also imposed a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.On January 27 2021 a worker employed by Cementation Canada Inc. was working at the Young Davidson Mine near Matachewan Ontario.The worker was working on a raise climber nest which is a work platform used to blast and drill a large tunnel or opening raise that is mined upward.The worker was washing this equipment when they fell through an opening designed to allow the climber to leave the nest.The worker suffered multiple injuries after falling 4.09 metres to the ground.Although the worker was wearing a full body harness they were not tied to the fall protection system at the time of the incident.Section 141 of Ontario Regulation 854 Mines and Mining Plants states that a fall arrest system must be used to protect any worker exposed to a fall greater than three metres.Section 251c of the Occupational Health and Safety Act states that the employer must ensure the regulations are followed at the workplace.Cementation Canada Inc. pleaded guilty to contravening Section 251c of the Occupational Health and Safety Act by failing as an employer to ensure that the measures and procedures required by Section 141 of Ontario Regulation 854 were carried out.
