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Blog Post #1481 – Countertop Manufacturer Fined $50,000 After Worker Seriously Injured in London

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Hyundai L and C Canada Inc., operating as HanStone Canada, Moncton, New Brunswick, was injured after falling from a crumbler machine. The worker had just finished cleaning the front of the crumbler when the incident occurred. The worker was working on an unguarded rail on the machine, and was returning to a platform, when the incident occurred. The worker was unaware the machine should only be cleaned from the platform, which was protected by a guardrail. The employer failed to provide information, instruction, and supervision to the worker on the safe cleaning of the crumbler machine.

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Blog Post #1471 – Kitchener Company and CEO Fined $100,000 in Total for Machine Guarding Violations

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

THS Industries Ltd., as an employer, and Xiaoye He, as a Director, failed to take all reasonable care to ensure equipment, materials and protective devices, as prescribed by Section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851/90, were provided for nail-maker machines, leaving workers at risk of accessing moving parts inside the machines.

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