Blog Post #1187 – Worker’s Permanent Injury Results in $100,000 Fine for Ottawa Remediation Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker employed by Clean Water Works Inc., an Ottawa-based company that provides environmental remediation services such as hazardous waste disposal, tank cleaning, contaminated soils and lagoon cleanings as well as plumbing and sewer rehabilitation services to the residential, commercial, industrial and institutional sectors, received a permanent critical injury after being caught in a moving conveyor.

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Blog Post #1186 – Multiple Convictions Lead to Jail Term for Belleville Roofer

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was observed by a Ministry of Labour inspector working on a pitched roof without wearing fall protection as required by law. Fall protection contraventions are considered to be one of the ‘killer contraventions’ within the Province of Ontario and are treated extremely seriously by the Ministry of Labour.

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Blog Post #1184 – Worker’s Permanent Injury Results in $100,000 Fine for Milton Chemical Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

An employee of Recochem Inc. suffered a critical and permanent injury while reaching inside a bottle-making machine. Recochem Inc. is a company that produces, packages and distributes chemical products such as windshield washer fluid, automotive antifreeze, diesel exhaust fluid and a variety of household solvents and cleaners.

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