Triton Ocean Products has been charged with four violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act in relation to an incident two years ago at a mussel processing facility.

The incident in question occurred in June 2020, and resulted in injuries to a worker.

The company is now charged with failing to provide a safe workplace and necessary equipment that are without risk to workers, two violations related to safeguards on equipment, and a violation pertaining to equipment being properly secured when it is shut down for maintenance.

The company is scheduled to appear in provincial court June 15 in Grand Falls-Windsor.

Full List of Charges

Provide a safe workplace and the necessary equipment, systems and tools that are without risk to workers;

Ensure that machinery and equipment is fitted with adequate safeguards that ensure an employee cannot access a hazardous point of operation;

Ensure that machinery and equipment is fitted with adequate safeguards to protect an employee from contact with hazardous power transmission parts; and

Ensure that where machinery or equipment is shut down for maintenance, that no work can be carried out until all parts and attachments have been secured against inadvertent movement; where the work would expose workers to energy sources, the hazard has been effectively controlled; and the energy isolating devices have been locked out.