AIM lawyer asks for more time in fatal workplace injury case
A lawyer representing American Iron and Metal Inc. (AIM) was in court Monday morning in Saint John, NB, asking for more time as the company faces four charges following a workplace death.
The company is now due back in provincial court on April 11 to enter pleas.
Worker Darrell Richards, 60, died last July after he was injured at AIM’s west-end scrapyard.
As he cut into a roll of material, the roll decompressed, lacerating his leg and causing bleeding, his daughter-in-law told reporters at an AIM-organized news conference last summer.
Following a WorksafeNB investigation, the Crown charged the company under
