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ARTICLE · 30 AUGUST 2012

Criminal Prosecutor Appeals $200,000 Fine In Metron Construction Quadruple Fatality Case

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The Toronto Star is reporting that Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General has appealed a judge’s decision that imposed a $200,000 fine against Metron Construction in the 2009 scaffold collapse in which four workers died.

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Adrian Miedema
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The Toronto Star is reporting that Ontario's Ministry of the Attorney General has appealed a judge's decision that imposed a $200,000 fine against Metron Construction in the 2009 scaffold collapse in which four workers died.

The fine was levied under the "Bill C-45″ amendments to the Criminal Code in 2004.  The prosecutaor had sought a $1 million fine against Metron.

The prosecutors are seeking a much higher fine against the company, calling the $200,000.00 fine "manifestly unfit".

In handing down the fine, the sentencing judge considered a number of factors includings Metron's "prior good character", the fact that Metron was neither large nor profitable, and that the fine against Metron and an additional $112,500 fine (including the Victim Fine Surcharge) against the company owner for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act represented three times the net earnings of Metron in its last profitable year.

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