Skir Enterprises Inc. of Grand Falls-Windsor and a company supervisor have been charged with violations under Newfoundland and Labrador’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and Regulations.
The charges are the result of an investigation by Government Services’ Occupational Health and Safety Division following an incident which occurred on April 9, 2024, resulting in injuries to an employee from carbon monoxide exposure at a worksite in Grand Falls-Windsor.
Skir Enterprises Inc. is charged with:
- Failure to provide the information, instruction, training, supervision and facilities necessary to ensure worker safety.
- Failure to ensure that the employer’s workers and supervisors are made familiar with health or safety hazards that may be met by them in the workplace.
- Failure to immediately notify the assistant deputy minister of the accident.
- Failure to ensure that work procedures promote the safe interaction of workers and their work environment.
- Failure to ensure that personal protective equipment was selected and used in accordance with recognized standards and provide effective protection.
- Failure to ensure that a worker who wears personal protective equipment is adequately instructed in the correct use, limitations and assigned maintenance duties for the equipment to be used.
- Failure to ensure that workers do not have hair on the face or scalp that is likely to prevent effective sealing when a respirator with a tight-fitting facepiece is worn.
- Failure to ensure that each tool, machine and piece of equipment in the workplace was selected, used and operated in accordance with the manufacturer’s recommendations and instructions.
The company supervisor is charged with failure to ensure the health, safety and welfare of all workers under his or her supervision and failure to ensure that a worker uses or wears protective equipment, devices or other apparel that this Act, the Regulations or the worker’s employer requires to be used or worn.
The company’s first appearance is scheduled for April 22, 2026, at Provincial Court in Grand Falls-Windsor.
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