Dan Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by SMC (Canada) Ltd., a company that extracts and recovers precious metals in mining mills near Cobalt, Ontario, suffered a critical injury after becoming entangled in machinery. The machinery should have had a guard to prevent workers from coming into contact with moving parts.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Two workers employed by Gerdau Ameristeel located in Whitby, Ontario were injured after being struck with a piece of waste material that fell from a furnace. There was no overhead protection to protect the workers from the hazards of falling material.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Thyssenkrupp Elevator (Canada) Limited of Ottawa, Ontario, was injured while repairing an elevator that had not been properly locked out.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (January 2016)
An employee of a steel manufacturing plant in South Edmonton died from a fall on January 19, 2016.