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Penalties - Transportation & Warehousing
Disclaimer: Revised November 2010
Administrative penalties are fines imposed on employers for health and safety violations of the Workers Compensation Act and/or the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. The penalties--listed under the industry sectors below--show the date the penalty was imposed and the location where the violation occurred (not necessarily the business location). The registered business name is given as well as any "doing business as" (DBA) name.
The penalty amount is based on the nature of the violation, the employer's compliance history, and the employer's assessable payroll. Once a penalty is imposed, the employer has 90 days to appeal to the Review Division of WorkSafeBC. The Review Division may increase, maintain, reduce, or withdraw the penalty. Employers may then file an appeal within 30 days of the Review Division's decision to the Workers' Compensation Appeal Tribunal, an independent appeal body.
Listed under the industry sectors below, the fines indicate the penalties imposed prior to appeal, and they may not reflect the final penalty amount.
Transportation and Warehousing
Recent Penalties
Company: Mr. Bin Disposal Ltd., Vancouver 
Classification unit: Garbage, debris, industrial waste, or recyclable material removal
Amount: $5,155.19
Date of penalty: August 26, 2011
This firm failed to file a notice of project as required for work that could disturb asbestos-containing material. This was a repeated violation.
Company: A.K. Excavating Ltd., Delta
Classification unit: Dump truck operation
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: August 26, 2011
This firm removed equipment, including an excavator and waste bin, from a site where a house was being demolished. In so doing, the firm failed to cooperate as required with WorkSafeBC officers who instructed that the equipment had to remain on site until a proper hazardous materials survey, indicating the location of asbestos containing materials and other hazardous materials, could be conducted.
Company: Bear Crane Service Ltd., Abbotsford
Classification unit: General trucking
Amount: $5,325.93
Date of penalty: August 19, 2011
This firm provided crane services, including an elevated work platform for use by workers of another firm. The work platform did not meet the regulatory requirements for safety and had previously been ordered out of service by WorkSafeBC. The crane was not equipped with the safety devices required when raising a work platform, nor had it been inspected on an annual basis.
Prior Penalties in Date Order
Company: J & R Disposal Ltd., Richmond
Classification unit: Garbage, debris, industrial waste, or recyclable material removal
Amount: $7,125.53
Date of penalty: July 14, 2011
This firm's workers were wearing running shoes while collecting recycling materials and while transferring residential refuse to a collection truck. The firm failed to ensure that the workers wore footwear providing the required protection. It also failed to provide the workers with the information, instruction, training, and supervision necessary to ensure their safety. These were repeated violations.
Company: Canyon Tree Farms Inc., Fort St. James
Classification unit: Log hauling
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: May 16, 2011
This firm failed to maintain a complete daily log and used modified and uncertified load binders on two of its log transporters. These were repeated violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation.
Company: Alpine Disposal & Recycling (Interior Division) Ltd., Waneta
Classification unit: Garbage, debris, industrial waste, or recyclable material removal
Amount: $19,524.28
Date of penalty: February 16, 2011
This firm's worker suffered a serious crushing injury when the ram in the chute of a baler/compactor caught his foot. The fixed guard meant to prevent contact with the baler's hazardous moving parts had been removed. The firm failed to apply lockout procedures as required by the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. It also failed to provide its workers with the information, instruction, training, and supervision necessary to ensure their safety.
Company: British Columbia Ferry Services Inc., Port McNeill
Classification unit: Ferry service
Amount: $15,000
Date of penalty: April 27, 2010
This firm failed to ensure that asbestos-containing material aboard one of its vessels was properly identified by signs, labels, or other effective means.
Company: Burke Purdon Enterprises Ltd., Fort St. James
Classification unit: Log hauling
Amount: $8,474.14
Date of penalty: April 13, 2010
This employer repeatedly failed to ensure that the bullboard behind a logging truck's cab was permanently marked with the required information or fully identified in an engineer's or manufacturer's letter that is kept in the truck.
Company: Kelly Alexander Hascarl, Nakusp
Classification unit: Log hauling
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: February 17, 2010
This employer failed to comply with two orders. The first order required the employer to ensure that its self-loading log transporter was equipped with a bullboard behind its cab to protect its driver from loads that might shift. The second order required the employer to submit a written report outlining the steps that it was taking to comply with the first order.
Company: Halton Recycling Ltd., West Vancouver
Classification unit: Recycling depot
Amount: $14,008.14
Date of penalty: February 5, 2010
Two of this firm's workers were not wearing the safety footwear required for their work. In addition, one of the workers was not wearing the high visibility apparel required for work on a street with a speed limit over 30 kilometres an hour. These were repeated violations.
Company: Deway Fabrication & Builders Ltd., Burnaby
Classification unit: Garbage, debris, industrial waste, or recyclable material removal
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: September 24, 2009
A worker contacted a high-voltage power line while trimming trees, exposing himself, another worker, and a non-worker on the ground to the risk of serious injury.
Company: Loretta J Decoteau, Km 4.2, Finlay-Philip FSR, Mackenzie
Classification unit: Log hauling
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: April 3, 2008
Fatality. The driver of a loaded logging truck died when his truck left the road as he was attempting to pass a truck going in the opposite direction. The employer failed to adequately supervise a newly hired logging truck driver.
Company: Loretta J Decoteau, Km 4.2, Finlay-Philip FSR, Mackenzie
Classification unit: Log hauling
Amount: $2,500
Date of penalty: April 3, 2008
Fatality. The driver of a loaded logging truck died when his truck left the road as he was attempting to pass a truck going in the opposite direction. The employer failed to adequately supervise a newly hired logging truck driver.
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