A Home Depot in Bradford has to pay up after a worker was hurt by falling merchandise.
The retailer is facing a fine of $90,000.
On April 27, 2013, an employee was getting ready to receive a delivery of merchandise from a trailer backed into the receiving area of the store. While workers were receiving the product, one of the bay doors rolled away from its frame and hit plastic-wrapped doors stored on racks above the truck bays, according to the Ministry of Labour.
The pallet holding the doors tipped and fell about 11 feet, hitting a worker on the head.
The worker was paralyzed and suffered fractures.
The Ministry of Labour says a steel beam that was in the original design wasn’t installed as planned. That beam would have prevented the patio doors from being placed above the bays. The way the racks were built was also in contravention of provincial safety regulations, the MOL says.
Home Depot pleaded guilty to failing as an employer to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by law were carried out in the workplace.
Court also imposed a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge, which is credited to a special provincial government fund to help victims of crime.
