Posts Categorized As: Industrial

Blog Post #1626 – Workplace Injury Results in $60,000 Fine for Manufacturing Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by General Coach Canada of Hensall, Ontario, a company that manufactures and assembles park model and house trailers, was critically injured while cutting a piece of melamine with a table saw. By not ensuring the saw was equipped with a guard, General Coach Canada failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 24 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1624 – Workplace Injury Results in $80,000 Fine for Quebec Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘newsroom’

A worker, employed by Andritz Hydro Canada, of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, a company that supplies hydro turbines and generators in Canada, was critically injured after being struck by a falling sole plate. By not ensuring the sole plate was adequately braced, Andritz Hydro Canada failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1620 – Workplace Fatality Results in $125,000 Fine for Bradford Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was fatally injured while lubricating the Potato Line. By not ensuring the line’s uptake conveyor was equipped with a guard, Gwillimdale Farms Ltd. failed, as an employer, to ensure the measures and procedures prescribed by section 25 of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments were carried out in the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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