Posts Categorized As: Crane Accident

Blog Post #1496 – Workplace Injury Leads to $60,000 Fine for Richards Landing-based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Bernt Gilbertson Enterprise Limited of Richards Landing, Ontario, was critically injured when a motor fell during maintenance work being performed on a portable cone crusher. Gilbertson Enterprises failed as an employer to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker. The accident took place on May 15, 2021.

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Blog Post #1384 – Workplace Injury Results in $50,000 Fine for Stratford Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by FIO Automotive Canada Corporation (FIO), suffered a critical injury at the workplace when a 1,500-pund feed bar was knocked out of its support cradle and struck the worker who was operating the crane. FIO contravened a section of the ‘Industrial Regulations’ by failing to ensure that a feed bar that may tip or fall and endanger any worker was secured against tipping or falling.

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