SUDBURY, Ont. – Nine months after a construction worker was partly buried and injured after a wall collapse in a trench, the employer involved in the incident has been fined $125,000 and the worker’s supervisor $5,000, plus victim fine surcharges. A court bulletin from the Ontario Ministry of Labour (MOL) stated that the accident had occurred on Nov. 3, when an employee of R.M. Belanger Limited was about to do cleanup work in a trench that the company was excavating in Greater Sudbury. One of the trench walls collapsed on the worker, causing injuries to the legs. The MOL’s subsequent investigation found that the walls had not been sloped properly and that the site supervisor had not ensured that the worker had been following appropriate measures and procedures or wearing proper protective devices. R.M. Belanger later pleaded guilty to violating section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act in the Ontario Court of Justice in Sudbury, while the supervisor pleaded guilty to contravening section 27(1)(a) of the Act. Justice of the Peace Ruby Beck imposed the fine on Aug. 11.