Roofing company fined after fall protection violations

REGINA, Sask. — Clark Roofing Regina Ltd. was fined $7,000 on Jan. 21, after a worker was injured in a fall. On July 12, 2012, an employee of the company was seriously injured after he went onto a roof to move a hoist, said a statement from Saskatchewan’s Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety. The worker’s leg was caught in the hoist as it was being lowered over the edge of the roof and the employee fell two storeys to the ground. The ministry said in a Feb. 4 release that Clark Roofing Regina Ltd. was fined after pleading guilty to failing to ensure that workers use a fall protection system where a worker may fall three metres or more and failing to ensure that all work was sufficiently and competently supervised. Supervisor Harold Vincent was also charged and pleaded guilty to failing to ensure that workers under his direction comply with oh&s regulations. He was fined $2,100.

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