Posts Categorized As: Elevating Work Platforms

Blog Post #741 – New Mex Directors Receive Jail Sentences, Corporation Fined $250,000 After Worker Dies in Fall

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

New Mex Canada Inc., an importer and retailer of furniture and accessories, has been fined $250,000 and two of its directors, Baldev Purba and Rajinder Saini, have been jailed for 25 days each after pleading guilty to safety violations that led to the death of a warehouse worker.

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Blog Post #731 – Swing N Scaff Inc., Company Director Fined Total of $400,000 in Deaths of Four Workers

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Swing N Scaff Inc., the Ottawa-based company that supplied the swing stage platform that collapsed on December 24, 2009, resulting in the deaths of four workers and significant injuries to another, has been fined $350,000 in Old City Hall court. A company director, Patrick Deschamps, has been fined $50,000.

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