Evraz North America has been issued two fines totalling $935,000 for a pair of workplace injuries that happened at its Regina steel plant in 2019.

According to a news release from the Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety issued Thursday, the company pleaded guilty in Regina Provincial Court on Feb. 9 for violating the Occupational Health and Safety Regulations for two separate incidents.

One of the incidents occurred on Jan. 24, 2019 when a worker was rolling a pipe and slipped on ice and snow, causing them to be pinned between the pipe and a steel plate of a conveyor, resulting in serious injuries.

The company pleaded guilty to contravening clause 12(a) of the regulations: “being an employer, fail to provide and maintain plant, systems of work and working environments that ensure, as far as is reasonably practicable, the health, safety and welfare at work of the employer’s workers, resulting in the serious injury to a worker.”

Evraz was fined $257,142.14 with a $102,857.86 surcharge, for a total of $360,000.

The other incident happened at the steel plant on Feb. 6, 2019. A worker was attempting to put out a grease fire on a machine, which moved, causing serious injury. An Evraz employee told the Leader-Post at the time that the employee lost an arm in the incident.

Evraz pleaded guilty to contravening clause 137(1)(a) of the regulations: “being an employer, fail to provide an effective safeguard where a worker may contact a dangerous moving part of a machine, resulting in a serious injury to a worker.”

The company was fined $410,714.29 with a $164,285.71 surcharge, for a total of $575,000.

One charge was also withdrawn in the incident.