Posts Categorized As: Lockout and Tagout

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 #1697 – Workplace Injury Results in $275,000 Fine for St. Catharines Company

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Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by General Motors of Canada of St. Catharines, Ontario, an auto manufacturer, was injured when a CNC machine moved after the worker had entered to perform a maintenance task. 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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Blog Post #1580 – Workplace Injury Results in $110,000 Fine for Toronto Dairy Products Employer

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker sustained burns while trying to repair a Cleaning in Place (CIP) pipeline system. Lactalis Canada Inc., situated at The West Mall, Toronto, Ontario, failed, as an employer, to provide information, instruction and supervision to protect the health and safety of the worker with respect to the safe lockout and tagout of the CIP pipeline system, contrary to section  25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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