Posts Categorized As: Material Handling

Blog Post #1666 – Workplace Injury Results In $50,000 Fine for Barrie Manufacturer

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Report from the Ontario government’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Wolf Steel Ltd. of Barrie, Ontario, was critically injured while moving pieces of wood on a wooden cart. By failing to ensure the cart provided to move materials did not endanger the safety of the worker, Wolf Steel Ltd. failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 45(a) 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 #1662 – Workplace Injury Leads to $80,000 Fine for Ottawa-based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Bellai Brothers Construction Ltd. of Ottawa, Ontario, a concrete contractor, was injured when moving a fly form, a system used for supporting poured concrete slabs on buildings during construction. The company failed to ensure the fly form was stored and moved in a manner that did not endanger the worker, as required by section 37(1) of Ontario Regulation 213/91, and contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1612 – Workplace Injury Results in $55,000 Fine for Ottawa Construction Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was injured by a swinging peri box that was rigged to a tower crane. Claridge Homes Inc., from Ottawa, Ontario, failed to ensure that the measures and procedures required by section 179(1) of Ontario Regulation 213/91 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section23(1)(a) of the Ontario Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1611 – Workplace Injury Results in $55,000 Fine for St. Thomas-based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

 Gary D. Robinson Contracting Ltd. of St. Thomas, Ontario, failed to ensure that steel trusses were transported, placed or stored in a manner that would not tip, collapse or fall, as required by section 45(b)(i) of Regulation 851/90, a violation of section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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