Posts Categorized As: Fall Protection

Blog Post #1537 – Firm Owner Gets Jail Time

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine (December 2016)

The proprietor of a Dorchester-based roofing company was sentenced on November 03, 2016, to serve 3 days in prison and pay a $5,000 fine over an incident in a fall in 2015, in which an employee was injured in a fall last year.

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Blog Post #1521 – Workplace Injury Results in $90,000 Fine for Elmira Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Elmira Pet Products Ltd., of Elmira, Ontario was critically injured from a fall, while cleaning a pet food manufacturing plant. Contrary to safety procedures, Elmira Pet Products Ltd. failed, as an employer, to ensure a worker was protected by means of a guardrail system or protective coverings as outlined in the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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