FORT MCMURRAY, Alta. – Suncor Energy Inc. and Brayford Trucking Ltd. were recently convicted and fined for unrelated workplace fatalities, both of which occurred in Fort McMurray in 2014. Suncor pleaded guilty to failing to protect the health and safety of a worker on April 24, with other charges dropped, according to an undated announcement on the Alberta Ministry of Labour (MOL) website. An upgrade supervisor with the company was killed when he fell into a three-metre hole while searching for a water source on Jan. 19, 2014. Suncor was fined $15,000, including a victim fine surcharge, plus a “creative sentence” of $285,000 to go to a safety research project, the MOL stated. On April 28, Brayford was sentenced to pay a $100,000 fine, including a victim fine surcharge, and serve two years of corporate probation, for a March 14, 2014 incident in which an excavator sank into water after a sheet of ice broke, drowning the excavator operator (COHSN, March 8, 2016). Brayford later pleaded guilty to failing to train a worker to operate equipment safely and failing to test the ice. Other charges against Brayford were dropped, according to a separate MOL announcement.