Posts Categorized As: Employer Responsibilities

Blog Post #1559 – Workplace Injury Results in $75,000 Fine for Ilderton, Ontario-Based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker suffered critical injuries when a forklift and front-end loader collided. Coldstream Concrete Limited failed as an employer to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker at a workplace contrary to section 25(2)(h) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1556 – Workplace Fatality Results in $120,000 Fine for Lucan, Ontario-based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

 A worker was fatally injured due to carbon monoxide exposure following a fire in an oil‐lubricated air compressor. OJB Industries Inc. of Lucan, Ontario, failed, as an employer, to ensure that measures and procedures prescribed by section 10(5) of Ontario Regulation 833, CONTROL OF EXPOSURE TO BIOLOGICAL OR CHEMICAL AGENTS, were carried out at a workplace contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.