Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Spring 2024)
Syncrude Canada has been fined $390,000 after one of its workers was killed near Fort McKay, Alta, in 2021.
Blog Post #1616 – Two Windsor Companies Fined $130,000 in Total After Worker Injury
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Description of Offence: Two workers were injured when a section of an unbraced masonry block wall collapsed.
Fortis Construction Group Inc. failed, as a constructor, to ensure that the wall was adequately braced as required by section 31(1)(b) of Regulation 213/91, a violation of section 23(1)(b) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1612 – Workplace Injury Results in $55,000 Fine for Ottawa Construction Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker was injured by a swinging peri box that was rigged to a tower crane. Claridge Homes Inc., from Ottawa, Ontario, failed to ensure that the measures and procedures required by section 179(1) of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section23(1)(a) of the Ontario Health and Safety Act.
Blog Post #1606 – Workplace Injury Results in $65,000 Fine for Leamington-based Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
South Essex Fabricating Inc., a fabricator of commercial greenhouse structures and pre-engineered buildings situated in Leamington, Ontario, failed to shore the walls of a trench as required under section 234(1) of Regulation 213/91 of the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA).