Workplace Health and Safety Act charges have been laid against an Alberta-based company in connection to the January 2018 workplace death of 22-year-old Todd Maytwayashing near Gillam, APTN is reporting.
Maytwayashing, from Lake Manitoba First Nation, was working on a transmission line from Manitoba Hydro’s Keeyask Generating Station to the Radisson Converter Station when he was killed Jan. 17, 2018.
RCMP said in a press release at the time that he was loading metal sheets when two of the 15-foot sheets moved in his direction and struck him in a marshalling yard about 45 kilometres from Gillam.
He was employed by Forbes Bros. Ltd, an Edmonton-based private contractor working for Manitoba Hydro.
A provincial spokesperson told APTN that seven charges, including failing to ensure the safety and health of workers, failing to provide adequate training and competent supervision to workers, and failing to develop and implement safe work procedures for the use of dunnage to secure a load on a trailer were sworn April 18.
Maytwayashing’s father Barry Swan told APTN he was relieved that charges had been laid while Forbes Bros. Ltd. said in a written statement that “Our commitment to create a safe workplace every day at Forbes has not wavered.”
