Utility denies workplace-hazard charges
Spring 2027 trial set for NB Power on allegations that workers exposed to asbestos risk
Counsel for a Crown corporation denied allegations on its behalf Monday that it failed to follow guidelines with respect to asbestos and didn’t inform an employee of its presence in a workplace.
New Brunswick Power Corp. was scheduled to enter pleas in Fredericton provincial court Monday to WorkSafeNB charges laid under the provincial Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Those counts allege NB Power failed to adopt a Code of Practice for Working with Materials Containing Asbestos in New Brunswick, failed to acquaint an employee with any hazard in connection with the handling of asbestos, and failed to protect a worker’s health and safety by informing that individual there was asbestos at a jobsite in Fredericton, all between May 23, 2012 and March 14, 2024.
