Posts Categorized As: Lift Truck

Blog Post #1607 – Workplace Injury Results in $70,000 Fine for Quebec Manufacturing Company

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by MTCA Inc., was seriously injured after being struck by a forklift. The company failed to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed under section 11(a) 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 #1593 – Workplace Death Results in $60,000 Fine for Sarnia Recycling Facility

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was fatally injured while replacing a faulty hydraulic hose on a forklift. Revital Polymers Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure the forklift was not left unattended, contrary to section 58 of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments and a violation of section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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