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Saskatoon company fined $91K for fatal workplace incident

Basic Truck & Trailer Repair was fined after a 61-year-old man was fatally injured at its truck repair shop in July 2018.

61-year-old fatally injured at repair shop on Apex Street in 2018

Alexander Quon · CBC News ·
Basic Truck and Trailer Repair has been fined in connection with the workplace death of a 61-year-old man at a truck repair shop in north Saskatoon in 2018. (Dan Zakreski/CBC)

A Saskatoon repair company has been fined more than $90,000 in relation to a fatal 2018 workplace incident.

On July 31, 2018, an employee was injured as he was fixing a strap on a truck box's hydraulic cylinder at Basic Truck & Trailer Repair on Apex St.  

The strap broke, causing the truck box to fall onto the man.

The 61-year-old died in hospital.

Basic Truck & Trailer Repair was charged with three counts of violating the province's occupational health and safety legislation in connection with the incident. 

The province's Ministry of Labour Relations said in a news release Tuesday that the company pleaded guilty to a single charge in Saskatoon Provincial Court on Feb. 3, 2021. The two other charges were stayed.

The court imposed a fine of $65,000 with a $26,000 surcharge for a total of $91,000. 

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Alexander Quon

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Alexander Quon has been a reporter with CBC Saskatchewan since 2021 and is happy to be back working in his hometown of Regina after half a decade in Atlantic Canada. He has previously worked with the CBC News investigative unit in Nova Scotia and Global News in Halifax. Alexander specializes in municipal political coverage and data-reporting. He can be reached at: alexander.quon@cbc.ca.

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