Wood-products company fined for accident
Machine malfunction led to deep cut to Marwood Ltd. employee’s arm at Tracyville facility
A worker at Marwood Ltd. sustained a gash to his forearm when a machine malfunctioned while he was cleaning wood shavings from the drill press he’d been using on the job, court heard Wednesday.
The Tracyville wood-products manufacturing company pleaded not guilty earlier this year to three Occupational Health and Safety Act charges laid by WorkSafe New Brunswick, alleging the business failed to take reasonable precautions to ensure the health and safety of employees by modifying its hydraulic system without an evaluation of risk of injury, failed to set up a written lockout procedure for a timber incisor and that it failed to provide directions on how workers can use machines in the workplace safely.
However, the firm later admitted to the second charge, and the case was back in Fredericton provincial court for sentencing Wednesday.