
Company to pay $330K after Edmonton worker trapped in smokehouse, dies in 92 C heat
EDMONTON — A commercial food processing company has been ordered to pay $330,000 after one of its workers became trapped in an Edmonton smokehouse and died.
Ontario-based Sofina Foods Inc. was directed by a judge Thursday to put the money toward a workplace training program after a joint submission from the Crown prosecution and the company.
Justice Michèle Collinson told court it needed to be a significant penalty to match the gravity of what happened, but said, “there is no amount of money, or any sentence, that can make up for the loss of life.”
“We don’t send our loved ones off to work thinking that this is the last time that we’re going to see them,” she said.