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Blog Post #1668 – Workplace Injury Results In $55,000 Fine for Toronto Rubber Products Manufacturer

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Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Rubber Technologies Corp. of Toronto, Ontario was critically injured while trying to clear a blockage from a machine. By failing to ensure the motion from a rotary valve was stopped before cleaning, National Rubber Technologies failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 75 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 #1659 – Workplace Fatality Results in $110,000 Fine for Brampton-based Construction Contractor

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Report from the government of ‘Ontario’s Newsroom’

A worker, Frontline Cable and Gas Services Inc., of Brantford, Ontario, an excavating contractor, employed by was fatally injured when the employer failed to install blocking required to prevent the collapse or movement of a piece of equipment being repaired. The employer failed to ensure that the provisions of section 108 of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were complied with at a workplace, contrary to section 25(1) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1656 – Workplace Injury Results In $75,000 Fine for Goderich Salt Mining Company

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Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘newsroom’

A worker, employed by Compass Minerals Canada Corp., of Mississauga, Ontario, a salt mining company. was critically injured while assisting with repairs on a flexible conveyor train. By failing to close off the area and position warning signs to protect workers, Compass Minerals Canada Corp. failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 68 of Ontario Regulation 854/90 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 #1641 – Workplace Injury Results in $180,000 Fine for Windsor Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Saturn Tool & Die (Windsor) Inc. of Oldcastle, Ontario, an automotive parts manufacturer, was fatally injured while troubleshooting a stamping press. Saturn Tool failed to ensure that the motion of any part of the press that could endanger a worker was stopped and blocked during maintenance work, as required by section 75 of Ontario ‘Industrial Establishments’ Regulation 851/90, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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