A Stoney Creek steel company has been fined $150,000 after a steel coil crushed a worker and killed him two years ago.

Janco Steel Ltd. was sentenced Thursday for failing to have the proper safety measures in place when a coil fell off a production line. The company had pled guilty.

The man died on July 21, 2016. Workers were applying strapping to a group of steel coils that had been slit on the slitting line, the province said in a media release. The coils, known as mults, were secured to a coil car.

The coil car was raised before the arm was in place that holds metal rings. That means one of the mults was unstable, and it fell off the machine's turnstile and crushed the worker.

This violated section 45(a) of the industrial establishments regulation, the release said.

Justice of the Peace Jerry Woloschuk issued the fine.

Janco Steel Ltd. is located at 925 Arvin Ave.

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