Posts Categorized As: Industrial

Blog Post #1081 – Freight Company Fined $85,000 After Worker Suffers Permanent Injury

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

At Consolidated Fastfrate Inc., a national provider of logistic services, including shipping and warehousing, on February 12, 2016, A worker who was operating a forklift struck another worker who could not be seen because the forklift operator had an obstructed view of the forklift’s path of travel. The injured worker suffered a permanent injury.

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Blog Post #1076 – Fatality Prompts Fine

Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine

A worker fatality led to a $160,000 fined issued on July 18, 2019 to a Japanese engineering firm.

The fatality occurred at a construction project located in a manufacturing facility in Tottenham, Ontario, according to a statement from the Ministry of Labour. (MOL)

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