A local vegetable processing plant has been fined $80,000.
Bonduelle Canada Inc was fined Monday by Justice of the Peace Calvin Hurst.
The fine comes after a worker at the plant on Lacasse Boulevard in Tecumseh was critically injured while cleaning a conveyor belt in November 2015.
In a release, it states a sanitation cleaner was cleaning a dewatering tank and conveyor and while scrubbing the worker's arm was pulled into the running conveyor belt.
A co-worker stopped the machine and the conveyor belt was immediately dismantled to release the worker's arm.
The release also stated, the worker had not locked out the conveyor belts at the time of the incident and the machine was not equipped with a safety guard.
The guard is required under the Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and would have prevented the workers arm from becoming caught in the conveyor belt.
Bonduelle did plead guilty to failing to ensure that the measures set by the OHSA were carried out at the workplace.
The court also imposed a 25% victim fine surcharge as required by the Provincial Offences Act.
The fine will support a special provincial government fund to assist victims of crime.