12-01-2018 01:36 via thestarphoenix.com

Shercom slapped with $420,000 fine, surcharge in 2015 worker death

The tire shredder that killed 18-year-old Cade Jacob Sprackman didn’t have an emergency stop button, even though another Shercom Industries worker had been injured by the same machine just 10 days earlier.
“This accident could have been prevented when somebody else got hurt just days before … Cade would be here if they would have done something,” his father Jerry Sprackman said outside Saskatoon provincial court on Thursday.
Citing that “egregious” fact and a
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