Workplace death results in $98,000 fine

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Published: April 5, 2016

Olysky Limited Partnership has been fined $98,000 after a workplace death in 2014.

The company operating as Big Sky Farms pleaded guilty in Humboldt provincial court to one count under the province’s occupational health and safety laws of failing to ensure an equipment operator was using a seatbelt.

Charges were laid April 23, 2014 after a 19-year-old man was thrown from a tractor cab near Burr, Sask. He died at the scene.

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Karen Briere

Karen Briere

Karen Briere grew up in Canora, Sask. where her family had a grain and cattle operation. She has a degree in journalism from the University of Regina and has spent more than 30 years covering agriculture from the Western Producer’s Regina bureau.

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