Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
During construction of high-rise residential towers, a worker was fatally injured when a thirteen-ton counterweight from an excavator fell on them. Orin Contracting Services Inc. failed to ensure the safety measures and procedures for removing a counterweight from an excavator.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2015)
The RCMP and the Saskatchewan Ministry of Labour Relations and Workplace Safety are investigating the death of a male construction worker just west of Fort Qu’Appelle on October 21, 2015.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (June 2015)
A 55-year-old male construction worker in Edmonton has died after a sewer trench in which he was digging collapsed, burying him under a few meters of clay and dirt.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Orin Contractors Corp. of Concord, Ontario, a contractor providing municipal construction. was killed when the scoop bucket attachment on an excavator fell on the worker. A hydraulic coupler attached to the excavator was operated in a manner that was not in accordance with the bucket attachment procedure in the operating manual.