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Aecon Utilities fined $175,000 after worker drowned in flooded trench

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Aecon Utilities Inc. has been fined $175,000 after a worker was fatally injured in a water-and-silt slurry that filled an excavation trench during heavy rainfall at a King City worksite.…

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