Worker was injured while adjusting the speed of a batter depositor on an industrial oven
Ontario employer NuStef Baking Ltd. has been fined $55,000 after one of its workers was injured in the workplace.
Following a guilty plea in the Provincial Offences Court in Mississauga, the employer was also ordered to pay a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge, as required by the Provincial Offences Act. The surcharge is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.
The incident occurred on March 20, 2023, when a worker was adjusting the speed of a batter depositor on an industrial oven while it was in operation in Mississauga.
To do this, the worker reached below the oven to manually turn a knob while the batter depositor was in motion. The worker suffered serious inj