Blog Post #1481 – Countertop Manufacturer Fined $50,000 After Worker Seriously Injured in London

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Hyundai L and C Canada Inc., operating as HanStone Canada, Moncton, New Brunswick, was injured after falling from a crumbler machine. The worker had just finished cleaning the front of the crumbler when the incident occurred. The worker was working on an unguarded rail on the machine, and was returning to a platform, when the incident occurred. The worker was unaware the machine should only be cleaned from the platform, which was protected by a guardrail. The employer failed to provide information, instruction, and supervision to the worker on the safe cleaning of the crumbler machine.

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Blog Post #1479 – Construction Company Fined $55,000 After Worker Injured by Unsafely Stored Building Material

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Eric Lemire Enterprises Inc., an Ottawa construction company specializing in erecting structural and miscellaneous steel, was injured by a steel truss that tipped over. Eric Lemire Enterprises Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure material or equipment at a project was stored and moved in a manner that did not endanger a worker.

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