Kirkland Lake auto shop fined for faulty equipment that injured two.

• Date: 01 August 2019

A Kirkland Lake car dealership was fined $45,000 for a 2017 shop accident that injured two employees.

Lake Shore Motors pled guilty and was fined by Justice of the Peace Theodore A. Hodgins in a Kirkland Lake courtroom, June 18.

With the fine comes a 25 per cent victim fine surcharge, required by the Provincial Offences Act, which goes into a special fund to assist victims of crime.

On Feb. 21, 2017, two workers were critically injured while standing beneath a 10,000-pound hoist used to raise a vehicle undergoing repair in the dealership's servicing facility.

The vehicle was raised approximately six feet in the air and the workers were standing underneath doing repairs when it suddenly fell off the hoist to the floor.

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