Excerpt from the government of Ontario ‘Newsroom’
Recovery Abatement & Insulation Ltd., a Harrowsmith business that conducts asbestos abatement, has pleaded guilty and has been fined $25,000 after workers were exposed to asbestos dust on a job site. A supervisor, Gregory Simpson, pleaded guilty to failing to ensure workers used protective clothing and equipment, and was fined $4,000.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine
A pedestrian in Montreal has been killed by a falling object on a construction site.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Hydro One Networks Inc. has pleaded guilty and has been fined $325,000 after a worker was killed while moving power equipment at the electricity transmission and distribution company’s Hinchinbrooke Distribution Station.
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.