Posts Categorized As: Machine Guarding

Blog Post #1715 – Concord Company Fined $55,000 After Worker Injured

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Camp Forming Ltd. of Concord, Ontario, a concrete forming contractor, was injured while cleaning a conveyor while its belt was moving. The company failed, as an employer, to provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker to protect the health or safety of the worker, contrary to section 25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1707 – Workplace Injury Results in $115,000 Fine for Leamington-based Company

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

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 #1700 – Mississauga Manufacturer Fined $120,000 After Workplace Fatality

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Allied Tooling Technologies Inc., a manufacturer of automotive, aerospace and industrial parts, was fatally injured while operating a CNC lathe machine. The company failed, as an employer, to ensure that the machine was equipped with a guard that prevented access to an exposed moving part, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act and section 24 of Ontario Regulation 851/90.

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