Posts Categorized As: Elevating Work Platforms

Blog Post #1377 – Workplace Fatality Results in $60,000 Fine for Braeside Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker performing work for ThermoEnergy Structures Inc. suffered a fatality resulting from the use of a bucket truck. ThermoEnergy Structures Inc. failed, as a constructor, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by O. Reg. 213/91, made under the Occupational Health and Safety Act, were carried out at the project.

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Blog Post #1352 – Employee Perishes in Fall

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Nov. 2015)

A construction employee was killed in a fall at a worksite in Montréal, when the platform in which he was standing suddenly overturned. The incident occurred on September 15, 2015 at the Champlain Bridge’s ice-control structure over the St. Lawrence River, according to the provincial police force, the Sûreté du Québec (SQ)