Chupa Trucking and Excavating has pleaded guilty in Melfort Provincial court to contravening The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations.

The company was fined after a worsite accident April 15, 2020 near Tisdale when a worker suffered serious injuries after falling into a closing gravel-trailer dump gate.

OH&S in a news release says the company was fined for contravening clause 12(c) of the regulations that being “an employer at a place of employment, fail to provide any information, instruction, training and supervision that is necessary to protect the health and safety or workers at work, resulting in the serious injury of a worker.”

The company was fined $60,714.28, along with a surcharge of $24,285.72, for a total amount of $85,000.