Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Pickard Construction of Owen Sound, Ontario, was critically injured while their crew was clearing a blockage from a pipe near a live overhead hydro line. By not ensuring precautions were in place to prevent hazards to workers from energized electrical equipment, installations and conductors, Pickard Construction failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 183 of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.