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Medicine Hat company fined $360,000 following 2023 workplace death

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HTK Iron Works Ltd. fined $ 360,000 after admitting failing to keep safe worker who died in 2023 incident.

A worker died at a metal fabrication shop near Burdett , about 60 kilometres southeast of Medicine Hat , after being hit by a fabricated windbreak panel that fell from a moving forklift.

Four other OHS charges were withdrawn.

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