Posts Categorized As: Construction

Blog Post #1637 – Power Company and Supervisor Fined $262,000 Total After Critical Workplace Injury

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Hydro One Networks Inc., of Toronto, Ontario, a power supply company, and Gregory Diebold, a supervisor, was critically injured after a copper wire they were holding, made contact with a live powerline. Hydro One failed to ensure that work performed on or near electrical transmission or distribution systems was performed in accordance with section 132 of the Electrical Utility Safety Rules as required by section 181 of Ontario Regulation 213/91. The supervisor failed to take every reasonable precaution to prevent hazards to workers from energized electrical equipment, installations and conductors, as required by section 183 of the Regulation.

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Blog Post #1633 – Workplace Injury Results in $70,000 Fine for Construction Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Steed and Evans Ltd. of St. Jacobs, Ontario, a civil infrastructure and material supply company, was critically injured after being struck by a vehicle while performing sewer chamber work on a roadway. By failing to position adequate warning signs or barriers to protect the worker, Steed and Evans Ltd. failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 67(4) 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 #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 #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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