NEWMARKET, Ont. – A paving firm based in Concord, Ont. has been fined $125,000, plus the standard victim fine surcharge, after pleading guilty to its role in an employee’s accidental death on Aug. 27, 2014. That day, a working crew with Vaughan Paving Ltd. was grading and levelling a parking lot at a Markham strip mall to prepare it for concrete curbs. According to a court bulletin from the Ontario Ministry of Labour (MOL), a labourer was struck by a reversing skid steer while walking backwards after taking elevation measurements; the worker later died of the injuries at a local hospital. The subsequent MOL investigation found that the skid steer had significant blind spots and no functioning reverse alarm. In addition, a supervisor tried to warn the worker of danger by hitting the horn on a bulldozer, but the horn was broken. Vaughan was convicted of violating Section 104(3) of the Ontario Construction Projects Regulation at the Ontario Court of Justice in Newmarket, and Justice of the Peace Herbert B. Radtke fined the company on June 19 of this year.