Company faces workplace safety charge after worker killed by 454-kg tire

A Moncton tire shop faces a workplace safety charge after a worker was killed by a tire weighing 454 kilograms last fall.

Coast Tire faces allegation it failed to provide appropriate equipment to move oversize tire

Shane Magee · CBC News · Posted: Feb 26, 2025 10:51 AM EST | Last Updated: February 26

Exterior of a multi-storey stone-clad building with the words "Palais de Justice Moncton Law Courts". — Coast Tire is scheduled to return to court in March on a workplace safety charge related to the death of an employee last fall. (Shane Magee/CBC)

A Moncton tire shop faces a workplace safety charge after a worker was killed last fall by a tire weighing 454 kilograms.

The charge under the province's Occupational Health and Safety Act was laid Monday in Moncton provincial court.

It alleges Coast Tire & Auto Service Ltd. failed to provide appropriate equipment to move oversize tires at its Baig Boulevard location on Oct. 18, 2024.

Lynn Meahan-Carson, the manager of communications for WorkSafeNB, said in a statement the tire fell on an employee while being unloaded from a truck.

"Our investigation revealed that while Coast Tire & Auto Service Ltd., had a written procedure for handling or transporting large heavy tires from the trailer to the warehouse, the procedure did not provide the associated hazards," Meahan-Carson said in the statement.

The company is scheduled to return to court on March 24.

WorkSafeNB said the charge relates to the death of Timothy David Steeves, 41, of Weldon whose obituary says he worked for Coast Tire for 17 years.