Posts Categorized As: Industrial

Blog Post #1710 – Ontario Court Upholds For-Cause Dismissal of Health & Safety Manager for Mishandling of Her Own WSIB Claim

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Report by –  Maria Constantine

 Employment & Labour

In Lagala v. Patene Building Supplies Ltd.,1 the Ontario Superior Court of Justice dismissed a wrongful termination claim commenced by the former Health, Safety and Training Manager of a building supply company whose employment had been terminated for cause. The employee had been dismissed following her failure to report her own workplace accident and injury to her employer for over six months and her non-adherence to workplace safety policies – the very policies that she was responsible for drafting and enforcing.

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Blog Post #1707 – Workplace Injury Results in $115,000 Fine for Leamington-based Company

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Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Highline Produce Limited of Leamington, Ontario, a mushroom growing company, was critically injured operating equipment for which no measures, procedures, guards or other devices where in place to prevent access to a hazard. Highline Produce Limited failed to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker in the workplace, a violation of section 25(2)(h) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1705 – Workplace Injury Results In $55,000 Fine for Mississauga Bakery

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Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by NuStef Baking Ltd., of Vancouver, British Columbia, was injured while adjusting the speed of a batter depositor on an industrial oven. By not ensuring the equipment was properly guarded, NuStef Baking Ltd. failed to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to sections 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1704 – Brampton Company Fined $144,000 After Furnace Explosion Injures Workers

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Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Two workers, employed by Metex Heat Treating Ltd., a company that does heat treatment on metal parts and fasteners, were seriously injured in a flash fire while re-starting a furnace. The company failed, as an employer, to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker, contrary to section 25(2)(h) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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