Posts Categorized As: Construction

Blog Post #1659 – Workplace Fatality Results in $110,000 Fine for Brampton-based Construction Contractor

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Report from the government of ‘Ontario’s Newsroom’

A worker, Frontline Cable and Gas Services Inc., of Brantford, Ontario, an excavating contractor, employed by was fatally injured when the employer failed to install blocking required to prevent the collapse or movement of a piece of equipment being repaired. The employer failed to ensure that the provisions of section 108 of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were complied with at a workplace, contrary to section 25(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1648 – Construction Project Supervisor Fined $10,000 After Workplace Injury

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Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Ryan Wilkes is a project supervisor employed by The Lake Partnership Inc.  A worker fell through an opening in the floor of a home under construction. Mr. Wilkes failed, as a supervisor, to ensure that the worker was protected by a guardrail or protective covering as required by section 26.3(2) of Ontario Regulation 213/91, contrary to section 27(1)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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