WINNIPEG, Man. – Maxim Transportation Services Inc. was recently fined a total of $48,750, including surcharges, over a 2014 incident in Winnipeg that left an employee with burns to his face and left forearm. Workplace Safety and Health (WSH), the oh&s department with the Manitoba government, stated in an April 20 media bulletin that the worker had been cutting a hole on the top of a metal 45-gallon barrel with an oxygen acetylene cutting torch on Sept. 10, 2014, when flames shot out of a filler hole and burned him. It turned out that the barrel had not been fully purged of flammable contents before the worker began the task, the bulletin added. On March 23 of this year, Maxim pleaded guilty to failing to ensure the health and safety of its employees, a violation of Section 4(1)(a) of the provincial Workplace Safety and Health Act. “When a workplace incident occurs,” WSH stated, “WSH may conduct an investigation and can recommend prosecution if it is determined that noncompliance to Manitoba’s safety and health laws contributed to the incident.”