Nutrien controversies
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2020
Nutrien fined over workplace injury at Rocanville mine
Fine or penalty
Nutrien was fined $150,000 over a 2018 workplace incident that seriously injured an employee at its Rocanville potash mine. Nutrien pleaded guilty to contravening occupational health and safety regulations; one other charge was withdrawn.
Source excerpt
Nutrien, operating as Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc., pleaded guilty in Moosomin Provincial Court on Sept. 17 to contravening Occupational Health and Safety Regulations, according to a news release issued by the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety on Thursday.
Nutrien has been fined $150,000 for a workplace incident that left an employee seriously injured at its Rocanville potash mine in 2018.
Under the clause, Nutrien failed to “comply with the duties of an employer at a place of employment including the provision of any information, instruction, training and supervision that is necessary to protect the health and safety of workers at work, resulting in the serious injury of a worker.”