The owners of a bottle depot recycling business and the company supervisor said they had no knowledge that a safety switch on a cardboard baler had been bypassed. However, that didn't prevent the company from being fined $200,000 for failing to ensure that equipment was properly maintained. The Bottle Bin Bottle Depot in Edmonton, AB, was charged after a worker became caught in a baler and died from massive head injuries in summer 2003. An Edmonton courtroom heard late last year that a safety gate should have prevented operation of the machine when the gate was raised. But that safety feature […]