{"id":704927,"date":"2026-05-31T02:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704927\/"},"modified":"2026-05-31T02:02:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T02:02:00","slug":"company-fined-120000-for-injury-on-edmonton-light-rail-extension-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/704927\/","title":{"rendered":"Company fined $120,000 for injury on Edmonton light-rail extension project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EDMONTON \u2014 A company helping build Edmonton\u2019s light-rapid-transit line has been fined after one of its workers was seriously hurt.<\/p>\n<p>Marigold Infrastructure Partners pleaded guilty to one count under health and safety rules for failing to properly keep equipment safe.<\/p>\n<p>The company was fined $120,000.<\/p>\n<p>The Alberta government says 13 other counts were withdrawn, as well as charges against two other related entities.<\/p>\n<p>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<\/p>\n<p>It says as one of the jacks pressured up, the concrete crumbled, causing the tensioning bar and jack to strike the worker.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 29, 2026<\/p>\n<p>The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Halifax as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=halifax.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1778170930_778_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 A company helping build Edmonton\u2019s light-rapid-transit line has been fined after one of its workers was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":704928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194294],"tags":[49,48,23752],"class_list":["post-704927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-edmonton","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-edmonton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=704927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/704928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=704927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}