Six years after a worker was injured during crane operations in Newfoundland and Labrador’s offshore, their employer — Transocean Canada Drilling Services — has been sentenced.

In a provincial courtroom in St. John’s on Tuesday morning, Judge Lois Skanes fined the company $50,000 for breaching the Canada–Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Marine Installations and Structures Occupational Health and Safety Transitional regulations.

The incident happened Sept. 6, 2019, when a worker was pinned between a steel adapter weighing 1,400 kilograms and a rail during crane operations on board the Transocean Barents oil rig.

On top of the fine, Skanes ordered the company to give an additional $15,000 to the College of the North Atlantic for safety related programing for heavy equipment operators.

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