MILTON, Ont. – A company that runs golf courses has been fined $50,000, plus a victim fine surcharge, for an incident in which a young worker suffered a hand injury in a wood chipper at Milton’s RattleSnake Point Golf Club on May 27, 2015. According to a court bulletin from the Ontario Ministry of Labour (MOL), two employees of ClubLink Corporation ULC were using the chipper that day when one of them placed a coffee cup near the machine’s back vent. The worker felt the air around the vent to check if it could knock over the cup, but the chipper pulled the worker’s hand into the vent and injured it. The MOL investigated the incident and found that the vent did not have a guard to protect workers from such an accident. ClubLink later pleaded guilty to contravening section 25(1)(b) of the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act in the Ontario Court of Justice in Milton, according to the MOL. Justice of the Peace Margot McLeod sentenced the employer to pay the fine on July 20 of this year.