A Sudbury mining company has been found guilty of failing to properly train a worker who was killed on the job more than two years ago.
Justice William Fitzgerald found Moran Mining guilty of failing as an employer to properly supervise an employee under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
The company was found not guilty on two other charges.
Chad Lamond, 20, was working on a scaffold at Inco?s Creighton Mine on March 7, 2002 and fell to his death. He was not wearing a safety harness at the time.
Lamond fell off of the work platform and fell more than 200 metres down a mine shaft.
Moran Mining lawyers argued Lamond was properly trained and was informed repeatedly to wear his safety harness at all times.
Ministry of Labor lawyers argued Lamond was a very inexperienced worker, who was not properly trained and supervised.
Lawyers also said he should not have been allowed to work on the scaffolding without a safety harness and that no supervisor was near his work area
when the accident took place.
Fitzgerald took 25 minutes to render his decision.
It?s expected the ministry will ask the courts to impose a heavy fine against Moran Mining when the sentencing hearing takes place Sept. 28.
The maximum fine following a conviction is $500,000.
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