Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
A worker fatality led to a $160,000 fined issued on July 18, 2019 to a Japanese engineering firm.
The fatality occurred at a construction project located in a manufacturing facility in Tottenham, Ontario, according to a statement from the Ministry of Labour. (MOL)
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker who was moving a bundle of steel using an overhead crane suffered permanent crushing injuries when an outer steel strut in the bundle moved inward. The accident took place at Frazier Industrial Company operating as Fracan, 163 North Murray Street, Trenton, Ontario, a steel fabrication facility. The date of the offense was March 08, 2016.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker suffered critical injuries, on June 7, 2016, at IKO Industries Ltd., a manufacturer of roofing products, after material used to make asphalt roofing products poured out of the hopper of a machine that was believed to be empty.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker received critical injuries while moving steel beams onto a flatbed trailer at Steelcon Fabrication Inc., 62 Progress Court, Brampton, a business of manufacturing and supplying structural steel beams and columns.