TORONTO, Ont. – A Hamilton-based firm has been found guilty and sentenced to pay fines totalling $50,000, plus a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge, in relation to an employee’s injury by fastening gun on August 14, 2013. That day, a worker with Agrivac Ventilation & Fabrication was employed at a worksite in the west end of Toronto, in a project involving sheet-metal work, according to a media release from the Ontario Ministry of Labour. As the employee was carrying a fastening gun down a set of stairs, the instrument fired a pin into the employee’s body, resulting in hospital treatment, the release noted. At a trial at the Ontario Court of Justice in Toronto on June 24, Justice of the Peace David J. Hunt found the company guilty of failing to ensure that the worker had been trained properly on using an explosive actuated fastening tool, a charge that spurred a fine of $30,000. Agrivac was also ordered to pay a second fine of $20,000 for failing to ensure that the worker was using the tool according to the operating manual.