Posts Categorized As: Machine Guarding

Blog Post #1628 – Workplace Injury Results in $79,500 Fine for Woodbridge Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Saputo Dairy Products Canada GP of Woodbridge, Ontario, a company that manufactures dairy products, was critically injured while attempting to clean waste cheese particles out of a groove in a conveyor drive roller. By not ensuring the conveyor was equipped with a guard, Saputo failed 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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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 #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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Blog Post #1597 – Workplace Injury Results in $55,000 Fine for Windsor Manufacturer of Aluminum Products

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was injured while operating a saw on an aluminum extrusion press. Can Art Aluminum Extrusion Canada Inc. failed to ensure the measures and procedures prescribed under section 24 of the Regulation for Industrial Establishments were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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