Concrete company fined $70K for workplace injury

A concrete company in Kingston, Ont., has been fined $70,000 after a worker was injured by an industrial hose on a concrete pump truck in April 2016.

The injury happened at Sousa Ready Mix Inc. in the rural north Kingston neighbourhood of Glenburnie on April 18, the Ministry of Labour said in a media release Wednesday.

A worker was cleaning the outlet hose of a concrete pump truck, which typically involves placing a "priming ball" inside the hose and running the pump in reverse.

But the ball got stuck, and three workers were instructed to deal with it, the ministry said.

They used an air compressor to force air into the hose and dislodge the ball, but on their third try, "the first worker released a clamp from the discharge nozzle of the air compressor without first releasing the pressure from the air compressor," the ministry said.

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