Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Two workers, employed by Regional Fence, of Gatineau, Quebec, were injured while moving fence panels. The company failed, as an employer, to ensure workers were protected from the hazard of a falling stack of fencing, contrary to section 25(2)(h) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Advanced Building Innovation Company Inc. of Nepean, Ontario, a maker of prefabricated homes for construction sites, was injured by an automatic nailing machine while performing repairs. The company failed, as an employer, to ensure the machine was properly locked out, contrary to section 76 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 and section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Report by – Maria Constantine
In Lagala v. Patene Building Supplies Ltd.,1 the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed a wrongful termination claim commenced by the former Health, Safety and Training Manager of a building supply company whose employment had been terminated for cause. The employee had been dismissed following her failure to report her own workplace accident and injury to her employer for over six months and her non-adherence to workplace safety policies – the very policies that she was responsible for drafting and enforcing.
Jason King, a former Springhill Construction Ltd. supervisor in New Brunswick, was sentenced to three years in prison for criminal negligence causing the death of 18-year-old worker Michael Henderson in 2018. King was convicted in June 2023 for reckless disregard of safety protocols, including failing to secure a confined space and failing to warn workers of a, fatal, 2018 water pipe test which drowned the teenager. The New Brunswick Court of Appeal upheld the conviction and three-year sentence in January 2025.