The provincial government has charged the Clarenville Area Consumers Co-Operative Society under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after an employee was seriously injured due to a fall two years ago.

According to government, the incident happened in March 2021.

The organization is now facing four charges under the act.

They’re related to the company’s alleged failure to provide a safe workplace and equipment, to ensure that materials and equipment were stored in a safe way, to ensure that the workplace wasn’t so overcrowded that it could cause a hazard, and to ensure that appropriate fall protection was used.

The organization will appear in provincial court in Clarenville tomorrow.

Clarenville Area Consumers Co-operative Society Ltd. is charged with four violations, which relate to its alleged failure as an employer to:

· Provide a safe workplace and the necessary equipment, systems and tools that were without risk to workers.

· Ensure that material and equipment was placed, stacked or stored in a manner that did not constitute a hazard to a worker in the area.

· Ensure that a workplace or an area in that workplace was not so overcrowded as to cause risk of injury.

· Ensure that appropriate fall protection was used where a worker was exposed to a hazard of falling from a work area, to a surface that could cause injury should a fall occur.