Blog Post #1625 – Workplace Injury Results in $200,000 Fine for Owen Sound Company

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.

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Blog Post #1624 – Workplace Injury Results in $80,000 Fine for Quebec Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘newsroom’

A worker, employed by Andritz Hydro Canada, of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, a company that supplies hydro turbines and generators in Canada, was critically injured after being struck by a falling sole plate. By not ensuring the sole plate was adequately braced, Andritz Hydro Canada failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1622 – Workplace Injury Results in $68,000 Fine for Woodbridge Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Innovative Metal Works Inc. of Woodbridge, Ontario, a company that manufactures and installs structural steel at construction projects, sustained critical injuries after a nylon hoisting strap holding a lateral assembly beam to a crane broke, causing the beam to swing and fall. By not ensuring to take steps to protect the nylon hoisting strap from being cut, Innovative Metal Works Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 172(3) of the Regulation for Construction Projects were carried out at the workplace, contrary section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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