The Municipality of Lambton Shores was fined $50,000 after pleading guilty last week to an Occupational Health and Safety Act charge laid following the injury of an employee working on a Zamboni ice resurfacing machine at the arena in Forest.
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The injury happened Nov. 26, 2021 and the conviction was Dec. 4 in provincial offenses court in Sarnia, according to a news release by Ontario’s Labor Ministry.
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The ministry said a worker at The Shores Recreation Center was operating the Zamboni when its auger system became plugged. After driving the machine off the ice, the worker raised the snow tank, installed a safety stand bar and turned the machine off.
The worker flushed the auger with water and, while pulling the hose out, reached in to check if it was free from snow and was injured when the auger moved.
There was no procedure in place for flushing the ice resurfacing machine’s auger, or for its operation, maintenance or cleaning, and the municipality failed to provide information, instruction and supervision to the worker with respect to its safe operation, the ministry said.
The court also imposed a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge, required by the Provincial Offenses Act, for a fund assisting victims of crime.
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