Posts Categorized As: Construction

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

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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Blog Post #1644 – Maple Construction Company Fined $250,000 After Four Workers Injured, Two Fatally

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Four workers, employed by Direct Underground Inc., Maple, Ontario, a sewer and watermain construction company were injured, two of them fatally, during the installation of a new underground sewer system. Direct Underground Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure that the walls of the excavation were supported by a shoring system or appropriately sloped, as required by section 234(1) of Ontario Regulation 213/91, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1639 – Workplace Fatality Results in $130,000 Fine for Concord Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Fourwinds Construction Inc. of Concord, Ontario, was fatally injured at a road widening project. Fourwinds Construction Inc. failed to ensure a headwall was stored in a way that did not endanger a worker, as required by section 37(1) of Regulation 213/91, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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