18 months for contractor after death of worker in Lachine collapse

A sentence of 18 months has been handed down to a contractor who was found guilty of manslaughter earlier this year for the death of an employee buried by a collapse during work on a sewer line.
Quebec Court Judge Pierre Dupras delivered his decision, considered to be a precedent in Quebec, on Tuesday at the Montreal courthouse. Sylvain Fournier was also sentenced to two years of probation after the prison term expires. He is the owner of S. Fournier Excavation Inc., which was doing work at a ho