Posts Categorized As: Electrical Safety

Blog Post #1637 – Power Company and Supervisor Fined $262,000 Total After Critical Workplace Injury

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Hydro One Networks Inc., of Toronto, Ontario, a power supply company, and Gregory Diebold, a supervisor, was critically injured after a copper wire they were holding, made contact with a live powerline. Hydro One failed to ensure that work performed on or near electrical transmission or distribution systems was performed in accordance with section 132 of the Electrical Utility Safety Rules as required by section 181 of Ontario Regulation 213/91. The supervisor failed to take every reasonable precaution to prevent hazards to workers from energized electrical equipment, installations and conductors, as required by section 183 of the Regulation.

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Blog Post #1625 – Workplace Injury Results in $200,000 Fine for Owen Sound Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Pickard Construction of Owen Sound, Ontario, was critically injured while their crew was clearing a blockage from a pipe near a live overhead hydro line. By not ensuring precautions were in place to prevent hazards to workers from energized electrical equipment, installations and conductors, Pickard Construction failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 183 of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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