A commercialized nutrient processing institution is facing 26 charges aft an Edmonton idiosyncratic became trapped successful a smokehouse and died.
Ontario-based Sofina Foods Inc. is charged with offences nether Alberta wellness and information laws.
The state says the installation supervisor had gone to cheque the somesthesia of the smokehouse successful March 2023 and was trapped inside.
The worker was recovered by a co-worker and aboriginal died owed to vigor exposure.
It’s alleged the institution failed to guarantee the smokehouse was good maintained and not a hazard for staff.
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Sofina Foods says successful a connection it has co-operated afloat with the provincial probe and called the decease a “deeply saddening accident.”
“Our radical are the bosom of our business, and our works superintendent, Samir, was an important portion of our Sofina family,” said the connection Monday.
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“His passing profoundly affected his family, our team, and our community. We proceed to beryllium acrophobic for them and their well-being.”
Smokehouses are utilized to process and sphere meat.
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The institution said that due to the fact that the substance is earlier the courts, it would not beryllium commenting further astatine this time.
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