TORONTO, Ont. – A fine of $150,000 was handed down to Marmora Freezing Corporation, a firm that packages food for shipment, in response to the 2011 death of a security guard from a temp agency. The worker was performing a midnight shift on the early morning of Dec. 14 of that year, when he decided to go outside for a smoke break, according to a court bulletin from the Ontario Ministry of Labour. He was wearing dark clothing with no reflective components and would have been difficult to see at night. As the guard was walking along a travel way, a car driven by a departing co-worker hit him and knocked him to the ground; immediately afterwards, he became caught in the mud flap of a tractor-trailer, which pushed him approximately 100 metres. The temp worker died of crush asphyxia; his body was discovered afterwards under a rear wheel of the trailer. On Feb. 23, Judge Peter M. Gettlich fined Marmora for failing, as an employer, to take every reasonable precaution to protect a worker. The court also imposed a 25 per cent victim surcharge on the fine.