WOODSTOCK, Ont. – A Burlington-based recycling company has been ordered to pay a $225,000 fine, plus a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge, for its involvement in the death of a worker on May 1, 2013. That day, a temporary worker from an employment agency was picking up recyclable materials with a side-loading waste-collection truck in rural Oxford County, for Halton Recycling Ltd., which operates as Emterra Environmental. The employee was driving the truck with controls on the right side while standing, when he lost control of the vehicle while rounding a curve; he fell from the truck and received head injuries upon striking the pavement, succumbing to the injuries later in the day. Although Halton Recycling has a safety policy stating that trucks cannot be driven at speeds higher than 30 kilometres per hour when an operator drives from the right-side, stand-up position, other employees said they were unaware of the rule. The company pleaded guilty to failing to take all reasonable precautions to protect a worker and was fined by Judge Michael A. Cuthbertson on March 13.