Fine levied after fingers amputated
NORTH BAY — Grocery store operator Metro Ontario Inc. received a $100,000 fine in July following the injury of a worker more than a year earlier.
In January of 2009, a worker at the company’s store in North Bay, Ontario was using a band saw to cut beef in the meat department. The worker’s hand slipped toward the moving blade, causing some fingers to be partially amputated, notes a statement from Ontario’s Ministry of Labour (MOL) in Toronto.
Metro Ontario pleaded guilty under the provincial Occupational Health and Safety Act to failing to ensure the saw had guarding to prevent access to the moving blade.
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