2 companies plead guilty to OHS violations in Sask.

Twocompanies have pleaded guiltyto violating an Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) regulation in Saskatchewan.

The companies failed to provide effective safeguards for workers that would prevent them from contacting a dangerous moving part of a machine and being injured. The incidents were unrelated.

Rest-Well Mattress Company Ltd. pleaded guilty in Regina Provincial Court. A worker sustained industries when his head was pinched in the machine table he was repairing in June 2015.

The company operates a manufacturing facility in Surrey B.C. and opened a second facility in Regina in 2009. The BC company was fined a total of $40,005.

Prince Albert Co-operative Association Ltd. pleaded guilty in Big River Provincial Court. A worker's left hand came into contact with the blade of a table saw while he was working in May 2015. The company was fined a total of $50,001.

Additional charges were stayed in both cases.