A Vaughan construction company has been fined $140,000 for its role in a 2023 incident that led to a workplace fatality.

Kingsview Carpentry Ltd. pled guilty to a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act in provincial court last February. The court also imposed a 25 percent victim fine surcharge that is credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.

The incident occurred at a residential construction site on Goldie Court in the Town of Blue Mountains.

On February 22, 2023, Kingsview Carpentry was the principal framing contractor on the project and responsible for supervising the other framing sub-contractors on the site.

Kingsview Carpentry hired Groulx Construction to install pre-engineered roof trusses on top of the garage area of a single-family home being constructed.

In the moments leading up to the incident, workers with Groulx Construction were preparing to separate the trusses that they had previously hoisted up onto the garage walls.

Groulx Construction had built a wooden support system in the centre of the garage to help keep the roof trusses upright. The support system was not intended to function as a work platform.

A worker with Groulx Construction climbed on top of the support system to reposition the trusses.

During this process the support system broke. The worker was not wearing any kind of fall protection and fell to ground below, sustaining a fatal injury.

Kingsview Carpentry Ltd. was found to have failed, as an employer, to provide the worker with a scaffold, suspended work platform, boatswain’s chair or multi-point suspended work platform that met proper safety requirements.