People board the LRT at the Century Park LRT station in Edmonton, on Friday, February 26, 2021. A court has fined a company that’s building a light-rail transit extension to west Edmonton $120,000 following an accident that seriously injured a worker. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jason Franson – The Canadian Press · The Canadian Press
EDMONTON — A company helping build Edmonton’s light-rapid-transit line has been fined after one of its workers was seriously hurt.
Marigold Infrastructure Partners pleaded guilty to one count under health and safety rules for failing to properly keep equipment safe.
The company was fined $120,000.
The Alberta government says 13 other counts were withdrawn, as well as charges against two other related entities.
The province says workers were completing post-tensioning of a segment of the Edmonton Valley West Line project on June 23, 2023, when a worker was struck by equipment and seriously injured
It says as one of the jacks pressured up, the concrete crumbled, causing the tensioning bar and jack to strike the worker.
This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 29, 2026
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