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, the owner of S. Fournier Excavation Inc., which was doing work at a home in Lachine on April 3, 2012 when Gilles Lévesque died, was also sentenc