General Motors Company (NYSE:GM) has been fined $325,000 in Canada after pleading guilty to failing to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances leading to the death of a worker at the automaker’s St. Catharines facility on October 22, 2021.
The company pled guilty in court last week.
The incident occurred while two workers were replacing a pneumatic cylinder on the milling machine. One worker was inside the machine, while the other was on top of it. The worker on top was not wearing any fall protection at the time of the accident.
The conviction was handed down by Justice Cameron Watson in the Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines on April 26, 2023. The court also imposed a 25% victim fine surcharge, as required by the Provincial Offences Act, which will be credited to a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.
The ruling follows another worker at the same plant was injured on the job in January. He was airlifted to hospital with serious injuries.
Shares of GM are down 2.28% in afternoon trading on Thursday.