WHITEHORSE, Yukon — The Yukon Workers’ Compensation Health and Safety Board (YWCHSB) has fined Yukon Agriculture and a contractor, after a man died while capturing wild horses last year. On Jan. 26, 2014, Arnold Johnson was working with a Yukon livestock control officer to capture the horses near Kusawa Lake, about 60 kilometres west of Whitehorse, the YWCHSB said in a statement. The Department of Energy, Mines and Resources had hired contractor Dan Sabo to capture the horses. Sabo built a fence corral and baited the horses into it, but when the workers were connecting the metal panels to the fence, the horses bolted. The statement said that one horse had become tangled in a fence panel behind which Johnson was standing. Johnson was knocked to the ground and the horse rolled over him; he suffered a head injury and died in hospital the following day. After a 10-month investigation, the YWCHSB fined Yukon Agriculture $5,000 for failing to establish a complete oh&s program. Sabo was fined $750 for failing to properly assess the risks associated with the job and for not providing appropriate personal protective equipment.