Alberta employers are being hit with the heaviest fines for violating occupational health and safety laws in connection with workplace fatalities, a CBC investigation has found.
CBC News analyzed 36 workplace fatalities in Alberta — going back to 2009 — in which an employer was convicted of a workplace safety violation in connection with a death. The median total fine — including all court-imposed payments for all parties — was $275,000.
That’s nearly three times as high as the median fine of $97,500 for the country as a whole, CBC News found when it drew from a sample of more than 250 cases from