Report from the United Steel Workers
Between 1943 and 1979, tens of thousands of Canadian workers, primarily in mining but also in other industrial workplaces, were compelled to endure toxic aluminum dust inhalation “therapy.”
Blog Post #1631 – Ontario Apologizes for Forcing Miners to Breathe in McIntyre Powder
Report from the OH&S Canada magazine (Winter 2023)
Ontario has apologized to mine workers in the province who were exposed to McIntyre Powder.
Blog Post #1628 – Workplace Injury Results in $79,500 Fine for Woodbridge Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Saputo Dairy Products Canada GP of Woodbridge, Ontario, a company that manufactures dairy products, was critically injured while attempting to clean waste cheese particles out of a groove in a conveyor drive roller. By not ensuring the conveyor was equipped with a guard, Saputo failed 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.
Blog Post #1627 – Workplace Injury Results in $50,000 Fine for Kitchener Company
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Inject Tech Plastics of Kitchener, Ontario, a company that provided molding solutions and assembly services to the medical, automotive and consumer industries, was critically injured after they backed into racking while operating a lift truck. By failing to provide proper training and supervision to the worker on the safe operation of lift trucks, Inject Tech Plastics failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 51(2)(a) of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) and section 25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.