Walmart Sentenced In Worker's Death

A 120 thousand dollar fine imposed on Walmart after the retail giant pleaded guilty to three workplace safety charges in the death of a teenage worker in the northern part of the province early last year.
    
Walmart was charged under the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a 17-year-old employee at a store in Grand Falls, Patrick Desjardins was electrocuted early in January of 2011. 

He was using a floor buffer on a wet floor in a garage at the time.

WorkSafe NB concluded Desjardins was using an inappropriate floor polisher which had a faulty extension cord when he was electrocuted.