Digital Government and Service NL today announced that Triple J Aggregates Limited of Conception Bay South and a supervisor have been charged with violations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations, in relation to a fatality which occurred in September 2020, at a quarry near St. John’s.

The company is charged with 11 violations for alleged failure to:

1. Ensure the health, safety and welfare of his or her workers.
2. Provide information, instruction, training, supervision and facilities that are necessary to ensure the health, safety and welfare of his or her workers.
3. Ensure that all buildings, structures, excavation, machinery, workstations, places of employment and equipment are capable of withstanding the stresses likely to be imposed upon them, and of safely performing the functions for which they are used or intended.
4. Ensure that work procedures promote the safe interaction of workers and their work environment to minimize the potential for injury.
5. Ensure where an unsafe condition is discovered by a person, that it shall be reported as soon as practicable to a supervisor, who shall ensure that appropriate action is taken, without delay, to prevent a worker from being injured.
6. Ensure that each tool, machine and piece of equipment in the workplace is capable of safely performing the functions for which it is used.
7. Ensure that each tool, machine and piece of equipment in the workplace is selected, used and operated in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations and instructions, where available, safe work practices, and the requirements of the OHS regulations.
8. Ensure that machinery and equipment is fitted with adequate safeguards to ensure that an employee cannot access a hazardous point of operation.
9. Effectively safeguarded machinery or equipment in use for normal production work, to protect the workers from the risk of injury from the movement of the machinery or equipment, or exposure to an energy source, where a work activity creates a risk.
10. Ensure where lockout of energy isolating devices re required, the devices shall be secured in the safe position using locks in accordance with procedures that are made available to all workers who are required to work on the machinery or equipment.
11. Provide and maintain on a conveyor belt guards on the load bearing rollers, return rollers and idler assemblies within 2.13 metres of the ground, a walkway or platform.

The company supervisor is charged with one violation for their alleged failure to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of all workers under their supervision.

First appearances are scheduled for August 19, 2022 at Provincial Court in St. John’s.

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Media contact
Kathy Dicks-Peyton
Digital Government and Service NL
709-729-4860, 699-1982
kathydickspeyton@gov.nl.ca