NEWMARKET, Ont. – A company that manufactures cement and other construction products has been handed a $75,000 fine, plus a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge, for a 2013 incident in which an employee was trapped in a sand and gravel hopper and injured his leg in Sunderland, Ont. According to information from the provincial Ministry of Labour (MOL), a worker for St. Marys Cement was inside the 80-tonne-capacity hopper trying to remove some gravel blockage on July 19 of that year. When the materials inside the hopper were released out of the bottom, the worker’s body dropped through the opening and became trapped there. The MOL investigated the incident and found that St. Marys had contravened Section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, which states that all further supply of material must be stopped and any removal of material prevented before an employee enters a container containing bulk material. In a Newmarket court, the company pleaded guilty to failing to carry out measures and procedures prescribed by law. Judge Joseph F. Kenkel ordered St. Marys to pay the fine on April 20.