Drywall company fined for fall protection violations

SWIFT CURRENT, Sask. — A drywall company in Medicine Hat, Alta. was fined $16,800 on Feb. 2 after pleading guilty to two oh&s counts. Gyp-Tec Drywall Inc. was fined for failing to notify the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety’s oh&s division, as soon as reasonably possible, of an accident at a workplace and failing to ensure workers used a fall protection system at a work area where they could fall three metres or more, the ministry said in a press release. Charges were laid after an incident in May 2013, in which a worker was texturing the ceiling of a two-story house in Swift Current and fell from the second floor to the first floor, sustaining serious injuries.

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