Posts Categorized As: Ontario Health and Safety

Blog Post #1544 – Mining Company Charged

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Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (November 2016)

Toronto-based mining company Glenmore Canada Corporation is facing multiple charges over the death of 54-year-old Richard Pigeau, who was killed when a piece of machinery struck him on the Nickel Rim South Mine in Sudbury on October 20, 2015.

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Blog Post #1540 – Cambridge Construction Company Fined $150,000 After Worker Injured

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Regional Sewer and Watermain Ltd., of Cambridge, Ontario was injured after falling from the bucket of a front-end loader. Regional Sewer and Watermain Ltd. failed to ensure the worker did not use the bucket of the front-end loader as a work platform, which is prohibited by section 107 of Ontario Regulation 213/91 under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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