UPDATED: Triple M Housing and its entities facing charges in relation to 2017 workplace incident
LETHBRIDGE, AB – A Lethbridge company and its 11 subsidiaries are facing a total of 13 charges under the Occupational Health and Safety (OH & S) Act. The charges are in relation to a workplace incident in May 2017 that left a woman, who was 37-years-old at the time, paralyzed and in a wheel chair.
According to documents sent to LethbridgeNewsNOW by OH & S, Triple M Housing and its related companies face charges that include failure to ensure the health and safety of a worker by failing to enforce the use of spotters when operating a crane system, failing to provide instruction on where stands should have been placed, and that stands or other objects were not placed by the guard railing located on the mezzanine level, failing to ensure that the worker did not work in the potential fall path of objects from the mezzanine level above the work area, failure to assess their work site and identify existing or potential hazards and eight other charges.
The documents state that on May 15, 2017, a worker was struck by a falling steel roof truss stand from the mezzanine area above. The worker was admitted to hospital because of the injuries she suffered in the incident.