EDMONTON \u2014 Excel Management Limited Partnership and Benchmark Cribbing Inc. both pleaded guilty on June 2 in the Calgary Court of Justice to one count each under the Occupational Health and Safety Act in relation to a 2023 incident in Calgary.<\/p>\n
On Dec. 16, 2023, workers were installing forms for a foundation at a new residential development when a cage holding panels fell, striking and pinning one worker, causing serious injuries.<\/p>\n
Prime contractor Excel Management Limited Partnership pleaded guilty to one count for failing to ensure workers were adequately trained to perform work in a healthy and safe manner. Three other counts against Excel Management Limited Partnership, Excel G.P. Ltd., and Excel Homes Limited Partnership were withdrawn, a release reads.<\/p>\n
Benchmark Cribbing Inc., as an employer, pleaded guilty to one count for failure to ensure that racks used to store materials or equipment were placed on firm foundations that could support the load respectively. The Crown withdrew three other counts.<\/p>\n
The Crown issued a stay of proceedings against a third defendant.<\/p>\n
Both companies were ordered to pay $125,000, inclusive of the 20 per cent victim fine surcharge, with the fine to Excel G.P Ltd., payable immediately and the fine to Benchmark Cribbing payable by Dec. 23, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EDMONTON \u2014 Excel Management Limited Partnership and Benchmark Cribbing Inc. both pleaded guilty on June 2 in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":729801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194293],"tags":[49,2798,48],"class_list":["post-729800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-calgary","tag-ca","tag-calgary","tag-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729800","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=729800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/729801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}