Appeal of sentences imposed on a corporation and two directors for violations of the Occupational Health and Safety Act following the death of a worker who fell from an elevated order picker platform.
The trial judge imposed fines of $125,000 on each count against the corporation and 25 days intermittent incarceration on each director.
The appellants challenged the sentences as excessive.
The appellate court allowed the appeal and substantially reduced the sentences, finding that imprisonment was inappropriate for first-time offenders in regulatory matters and that the fines were demonstrably unfit and outside the acceptable range for similar offences.
