This month Bakke Contracting Ltd. Pleaded guilty in Moose Jaw Provincial Court to one violation of The Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, 2020.

Fines and surcharges totalled $125,000. The charges stemmed from an incident that occurred on February 20, 2023, near Brownlee, when a worker was seriously injured when they fell from an elevated platform.  Four other charges were withdrawn.

The company was fined for contravening of the regulations that being an employer at a place of employment, fail to provide and maintain of a plant, systems of work and working environments that ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the health and safety and welfare at work of the employer’s workers, resulting in a serious injury to a worker.

As a result, the Court imposed a fine of $89,285.71 with a surcharge of $35,714.29.