Posts Categorized As: Machine Guarding

Blog Post #1490 – Waste Management Company Fined $50,000 After Worker Injury

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Canadian Waste Management Inc. of Mississauga, Ontario, was injured after reaching into the hopper of a waste collection truck while its machinery was engaged. The company failed, as an employer, to ensure the truck was equipped with, and guarded by, a guard or other device to prevent access to its moving parts.

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Blog Post #1471 – Kitchener Company and CEO Fined $100,000 in Total for Machine Guarding Violations

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

THS Industries Ltd., as an employer, and Xiaoye He, as a Director, failed to take all reasonable care to ensure equipment, materials and protective devices, as prescribed by Section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851/90, were provided for nail-maker machines, leaving workers at risk of accessing moving parts inside the machines.

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