Jobsite supervisor jailed after workplace death

EDMONTON- A four-month jail sentence has been handed down to a jobsite supervisor after a trench collapse killed a worker at a construction project in Edmonton.

Sukhwinder Nagra was sentenced yesterday and his employer, Sahib Contracting, was fined 425-thousand dollars and ordered to pay a victim fine surcharge of more than 63-thousand dollars.

Nagra and the company had earlier pleaded guilty to a charge under the Occupational Health and Safety Act of failing to take reasonable care to protect the health and safety of another worker.

Court heard the trench wasn’t braced when it collapsed in April 2015, burying Frederick Tomyn as he was working with a backhoe operator.