TIMMINS, Ont. – Diamond drilling firm Orbit Garant Drilling Services Inc. has been ordered to pay a fine of $200,000, plus the standard victim fine surcharge, for its involvement in a workplace fatality near Timmins on June 25, 2014. A court bulletin from the Ontario Ministry of Labour (MOL) stated that the company had been operating surface drills near the St. Andrews Holloway-Holt mine sites at the time of the accident. An employee was exiting a bulldozer that day when a dead tree, which weighed more than 900 kilograms, fell onto the cab door and injured the worker fatally, the Ministry said. The subsequent MOL investigation revealed that the route from the drill site had been impossible to walk through due to softness and mud, so the workers had needed to exit the worksite via bulldozer. A trial at the Ontario Court of Justice in Timmins later determined that the employer should have provided proper transportation for the workers that day. Orbit was found guilty of failing to remove all dead trees from the route to and from the worksite and ensure a same means of egress for employees, and Justice of the Peace Sylvie-Emanuelle Bourbonnais imposed the fine on July 13 of this year.