Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by R.M.Bélanger Ltd. of Chelmsford, Ontario, was killed when a wooden telephone pole rolled while it was being loaded with a forklift onto a trailer. R.M. Belanger Ltd. is a company that provides institutional, commercial and industrial construction services.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (June 2015)
A 55-year-old male construction worker in Edmonton has died after a sewer trench in which he was digging collapsed, burying him under a few meters of clay and dirt.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A steel structure assembly collapsed, injuring a worker, employed by Rafat General Contracting Inc. of Bolton, Ontario, who was doing work in an existing vacant building. Rafat General Contracting provides excavation, demolition and other services to the construction industry.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (January 2016)
Ontario launched a new occupational health clinic in Ottawa on January 21, 2016. The full-service clinic will treat injured workers in Eastern Ontario and help to reduce work-related injury and disease.