Posts Categorized As: Ontario Health and Safety

Blog Post #1559 – Workplace Injury Results in $75,000 Fine for Ilderton, Ontario-Based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker suffered critical injuries when a forklift and front-end loader collided. Coldstream Concrete Limited failed as an employer to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker at a workplace contrary to section 25(2)(h) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1558 – Leamington Produce Producer Fined $70,000 After Worker Injured

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was injured while replacing the hydraulic cylinders on a scissor lift when the lift’s platform and lifting mechanism collapsed. Amco Farms Inc., a company that grows, packages and ships produce,  failed to ensure that the platform and lifting mechanism were securely and solidly blocked to prevent the equipment from falling or moving, contrary to section 74 of Ontario Regulation 851 under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1556 – Workplace Fatality Results in $120,000 Fine for Lucan, Ontario-based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

 A worker was fatally injured due to carbon monoxide exposure following a fire in an oil‐lubricated air compressor. OJB Industries Inc. of Lucan, Ontario, failed, as an employer, to ensure that measures and procedures prescribed by section 10(5) of Ontario Regulation 833, CONTROL OF EXPOSURE TO BIOLOGICAL OR CHEMICAL AGENTS, were carried out at a workplace contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.