A Salmon Arm construction company was fined $11,048 after one of its employees was seriously injured in a fall from a slippery, sloped roof. He landed three metres below onto frozen ground.
Timberline Solutions is one of 47 B.C. firms fined by WorkSafeBC for safety violations.
“The worker was not wearing the required fall protection. The firm’s principal was on site at the time,” stated a WorkSafeBC report issued Aug. 29.
“The firm failed to ensure that its worker used fall protection and failed to provide him with the supervision and training needed to ensure his safety.”
Timberline was one of six companies penalized for serious injuries. Four fines were imposed on companies after lethal mishaps.
The largest single penalty of $58,000 went to Fraser Richmond Soil & Fibre Ltd. of New Westminster for failing to prevent employees from being exposed to asbestos within a reasonable time.
A large majority of the sanctions ranging from $1,200 to more than $57,558 went to Lower Mainland firms.
Nearly $540,000 in penalties over workplace violations were assessed in total.