Posts Categorized As: Ontario Health and Safety

Blog Post #1624 – Workplace Injury Results in $80,000 Fine for Quebec Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘newsroom’

A worker, employed by Andritz Hydro Canada, of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, a company that supplies hydro turbines and generators in Canada, was critically injured after being struck by a falling sole plate. By not ensuring the sole plate was adequately braced, Andritz Hydro Canada failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures 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 #1618 – Waterford Waste Disposal Company Fined $160,000 After Worker Fatality

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Norfolk Disposal Services Limited of Waterford, Ontario was fatally injured after a waste collection truck tipped over on a collection route. The company failed to provide information, instruction and supervision to a worker to ensure they were able to operate the vehicle safely, as required by section 25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act, contrary to section 66(1) of the Act.

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