Crown urges $375K fine against ThyssenKrupp for serious elevator injury
TORONTO — A $375,000 fine should be imposed on one of the country’s largest elevator companies for wilfully breaching safety rules before an incident in which a man was hurt, an Ontario court heard Monday.
In accusing ThyssenKrupp Canada of gambling with public safety, the prosecution called the company’s behaviour “egregious,” and said it was only by luck no one was killed in the July 2009 incident.
The fine is needed to send a message both to ThyssenKrupp as well as to the industry at large, Crown lawyer Kelly Hart said.
ThyssenKrupp Canada — part of a multibillion-dollar multinational — was found guilty in November of four offences related to the incident in which an elevator in a west-end Toronto condominium plunged as a man was getting in, trapping his foot.