Posts Categorized As: Construction

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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Blog Post #1616 – Two Windsor Companies Fined $130,000 in Total After Worker Injury

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Description of Offence: Two workers were injured when a section of an unbraced masonry block wall collapsed.

Fortis Construction Group Inc. failed, as a constructor, to ensure that the wall was adequately braced as required by section 31(1)(b) of Regulation 213/91, a violation of section 23(1)(b) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1612 – Workplace Injury Results in $55,000 Fine for Ottawa Construction Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was injured by a swinging peri box that was rigged to a tower crane. Claridge Homes Inc., from Ottawa, Ontario, failed to ensure that the measures and procedures required by section 179(1) of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section23(1)(a) of the Ontario Health and Safety Act.

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