Provincial wildfire service fined for employee’s death in 2022
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The Manitoba Wildfire Service has been fined $100,000 in connection to an ATV crash that killed an employee nearly four years ago.
Riley Manych, 23, was training for the Manitoba Wildfire Service in The Pas when he was critically injured on July 11, 2022, in an incident involving an all-terrain vehicle.
Manych was travelling on a paved road when he lost control of the vehicle and it began to roll. He was ejected from the ATV and suffered fatal injuries.
Manitoba’s department of natural resources and Indigenous futures, which oversees the Wildfire Service, pleaded guilty to three counts of contravening the Workplace Safety and Health Act during a hearing late last month, the province said in a news release Monday.
The charges include failing to train workers in safe work procedures, failing to ensure workers complied with safe work procedures and failing to ensure that workers were provided with protective headwear.
“As summer approaches, Manitoba Labour and Immigration is reminding employers of the importance of having safe work procedures and appropriate protective headwear in place for workers,” the news release said.
Manych had been part of The Pas Fire Department since he was 18, and came from a long line of firefighters that included his father and grandfather, the Free Press reported previously.