Sunrise Propane directors to be sentenced in December for deadly explosion
Posted July 23, 2013 5:34 am.
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Sentencing for the two directors of Sunrise Propane will be in December after they were convicted last month in a Toronto explosion that killed one man and forced thousands of people from their homes in 2008.
Sunrise Propane and directors Shay Ben-Moshe and Valery Belahov were found guilty on June 27 of nine provincial-offences charges in relation to the blast. The two will be sentenced on Dec. 9.
The explosion killed 25-year-old employee Parminder Saini and was blamed for the death of 55-year-old firefighter Bob Leek, who died of a heart attack.
The court ruled Sunrise failed to provide safety training and a safe working environment, discharged a contaminant and contravened a number of provincial orders related to the cleanup after the blast.
The court also found Ben-Moshe and Belahov failed to take all reasonable care to prevent the company from flouting those orders.
Following the blast, the government shut down all three Sunrise Propane’s facilities.
