Posts Categorized As: Electrical Safety

Blog Post #1536 – Workplace Injury Results in $170,000 Fine for Mississauga-based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was critically injured while conducting maintenance and repair on two industrial fans at the Brantford facility. Maple Leaf Foods, Inc. failed as an employer to ensure applicable requirements under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA) and Ontario Regulation 851/90 were followed.

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Blog Post #1519 – Dundas Concrete Products Manufacturer Fined $225,000 After Workplace Fatality

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was found fatally injured inside a steel concrete mixing tank. Coreslab Structures (Ont.) Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure that where starting a Planetary Concrete Mixer may endanger the safety of a worker, the control switches were locked out, as prescribed in Ontario Regulation 851, and contrary to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1461 – Six Manitoba Companies Fined

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Oct. 2016)

The Workplace Safety and Health branch (WSH) of Manitoba Growth, Enterprise and Trade ministry announced August 16, 2016, that it had issued fines totalling more than $111,000 to the following six employers from March to mid-July for contravening Manitoba’s Workplace Safety and Health Act.

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