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Penalties - Transportation & Warehousing
Penalties are fines for health and safety violations of the Workers Compensation Act and/or the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. For information on when penalties are considered and how the amount of the penalty is calculated, see the FAQs.
The address given is the location where the violation occurred and is not necessarily the address of the penalized business. The registered business name is given as well as any "doing business as" (DBA) name.
The delay between the date of the penalty and publication of the penalty by WorkSafeBC is partially a result of allowing time for employers and other interested parties to respond to the initial penalty and for the appeal process.
Transportation and Warehousing
Recent Penalties
There are no current penalties for transportation and warehousing at this time.
Prior Penalties in Date Order
Company: Southern Railway of British Columbia Limited, Huntingdon Rail Yard, 34520 Vye Road, Abbotsford
Classification unit: Railway
Amount: $63,750
Date of penalty: November 8, 2007
A worker was fatally injured while changing a coupling between two railcars.
The penalty was imposed because the employer failed to ensure that workers used a hand brake to guard against inadvertent railcar movement, which is a breach of lockout regulations.
Company: PMH Holdings Ltd., Residential housing, 10820 Seahurst Place, Richmond
Classification unit: Dump truck operation
Amount: $7,979
Date of penalty: September 6, 2007
Failure to ensure worker protection from potentially present hazardous materials by completing a hazardous materials survey prior to undertaking demolition work on a structure.
Company: Diamond Lil's Trucking Ltd., 2556 Mountain View, Sun Peaks
Classification unit: Dump truck operation
Amount: $18,504
Date of penalty: August 24, 2007
The employer failed to accurately determine the location of an underground gas line before using an excavator. This incident resulted in a ruptured gas line.
Company: Urban Woodwaste Recyclers Ltd., 4 Spruce Street, New Westminster
Classification unit: Recycling depot
Amount: $48,986
Date of penalty: August 22, 2007
Three workers were observed removing debris from the throat section of a "hog" without following proper lockout procedures.
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