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Alberta company fined $350K in worker's death

Alberta company fined $350K in worker's death

CTV News08-07-2025
Judges bench at the Edmonton Law Courts building, in Edmonton on Friday, June 28, 2019. A judge has granted Alberta's government its request to question the former head of the provincial health authority about confidential emails she's accused of keeping and sharing without permission. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson
A land development company has been fined $350,000 in connection with a worker's death in November 2022.
According to Occupational Health and Safety (OHS), the worker was caught between a boom and a grounded bucket while doing maintenance work on an excavator at a site near Gull Lake.
Delta Land Co. Inc. pleaded guilty to one count under OHS code. The Crown withdrew six other counts.
The $350,000 fine includes a 20 per cent victim fine surcharge.
Gull Lake is about 140 kilometres south of Edmonton.
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