Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Swing N Scaff Inc., the Ottawa-based company that supplied the swing stage platform that collapsed on December 24, 2009, resulting in the deaths of four workers and significant injuries to another, has been fined $350,000 in Old City Hall court. A company director, Patrick Deschamps, has been fined $50,000.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Two fall protection violations have netted an employer in Saskatchewan a $580 fine.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
Two unrelated workplace fatalities involving two outdoor workers, both of which occurred on August 9, 2013, have sparked investigations by Alberta Human Services’ occupational health and safety division.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
The 2011 death of a worker and injury to another at a Toronto Transit Commission subway construction site in North York has resulted in a guilty plea and a $400,000 fine. A subsequent, separate safety violation by the same company has resulted in a guilty plea and a $20,000 fine.