Appeal dismissed in workplace-fatality case
Jason Andrew King, 46, of Upper Hainesville, sought to overturn conviction, reduce sentence for criminal negligence causing death of Michael Anthony Henderson in 2018
An Upper Hainesville man has lost his bid to overturn his conviction for causing the death of a teenage worker under his supervision at a Fredericton jobsite in 2018.
Jason Andrew King, 46, of Central Hainesville Road, was convicted in 2023 of criminal negligence causing death after a judge-alone trial in the Court of King’s Bench.
King was a foreman with Springhill Construction Ltd., which was handling a construction job at the City of Fredericton’s Barker Street Wastewater Treatment Plant on Aug. 16, 2018.
Michael Anthony Henderson, 18, of Fredericton, died in an accident at the site that day, when the eight-foot-deep hole in which he was clearing debris suddenly filled with water when a pneumatic plug gave way.