A Tecumseh company is facing a fine after a fatal workplace accident in 2022.
On March 28 2022, a worker was fatally injured while working to fix a stamping press at Saturn Tool and Die.
A Ministry of Labour investigation found the company failed to ensure that the motion of any part of the press that could endanger the worker was stopped and blocked during the maintenance work.
According to the report, the worker entered the press through its light curtain which caused the press to stop operating. The worker did not lock out the machine by putting its ram blocks into place.
Unaware that the maintenance worker was inside, another worker returned to the press, reset the light curtains and cycled the press, fatally injuring the maintenance worker.
The company plead guilty in the Provincial Offences Court and was fined $180,000.