A Windsor contractor has been fined $80,000 in court for its role in a 2022 incident that led to injuries to two workers.

Amico Contractors Inc. of Blackacre Drive pled guilty to a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Actin a Windsor courtroom. In addition to the fine, the court imposed a 25 percent victim fine surcharge that is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.

The incident occurred on July 25, 2022. Two workers were setting precast stairs and landings in stair shafts at a construction project in LaSalle.

To complete this task, they built a work platform and braced it inside the stair shaft.

Shortly after the two workers climbed onto the platform to complete their work on the stairs, the platform fell while both workers were on it, causing injuries.

An inspection by the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development revealed that the workers did not construct or install the platform to support all loads.

By failing to ensure that the platform was built and installed to support the load of both workers, Amico Contractors Inc. was found to have failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 134(1)(a) of Regulation 213/91 were carried out, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.