Posts Categorized As: Construction

Blog Post #742 – Roadworker Fatally Struck

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

A traffic service information company was fined $100,000 in connection with the road worker fatality last year.

Pyramid Traffic, based in Grimsby, Ontario, was fined on August 19, 2013 after pleading guilty to failing to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker.

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Blog Post #733 – Roadwork Safety Reviewed in Manitoba

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

The Manitoba Federation of labour (MFL) met with ministers from the provincial government in September 2013 to discuss ways of making construction zones on highway safer, following a controversial verdict relating to the death of a 21-year-old road worker in 2010.

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