Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Blog Post #312 – Boiler Explosion Claims Worker
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
Three workers were injured, one fatally, during a boiler explosion at a heating plant in Ottawa last fall.
Paramedics were called to the plant — which services, among other federal structures, the Parliament buildings and the Supreme Court of Canada — at about 12:15 pm on October 19, says J.P. Trottier, a spokesperson for the Ottawa Paramedic Service.
Blog Post #299 – Atlas Dewatering and Supervisor Fined $81,000 Total after Worker Injured
Excerpt from the Government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Atlas Dewatering Corporation, a Concord company dealing in groundwater control, was fined $75,000 on February 10, 2011, for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was critically injured. Patrick Maher, a supervisor with the company, was fined $6,000 in relation to the same incident.
Blog Post #294 – Town Fined in Deadly Trench Collapse
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine
The Town of New Glasgow in Nova Scotia must pay $25,000 and various other penalties following a trench collapse two years ago that claimed the life of a worker.