MORINVILLE, Alta. – A lumber firm was recently charged for its involvement in a workplace incident that seriously injured a worker’s hand more than two years ago. According to an undated announcement on the Alberta Ministry of Labour (MOL) website, an employee of Nelson Lumber Company Ltd., which operates as Kilian Industries, was cutting pieces of lumber with a pull saw in Morinville on July 14, 2015, when the saw made contact with the worker’s hand. On July 10 of this year, the MOL charged Nelson with one count under the province’s Occupational Health and Safety Act, three under the Alberta Regulation and four under the OHS Code. Charges included failure to ensure a worker’s safety, to make sure that only a competent worker was performing dangerous tasks, to have a competent worker supervising dangerous work, to train a worker to operate equipment safely and to provide safeguards on dangerous machinery. In an unrelated case, the MOL also charged Goldec Hamm’s Manufacturing Ltd. and employee Roy Schmidt on July 4, for an Aug. 2015 incident in which a worker was injured by a flash fire from a hydraulic tank in Red Deer.