Posts Categorized As: Overhead Cranes

Blog Post #1496 – Workplace Injury Leads to $60,000 Fine for Richards Landing-based Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Bernt Gilbertson Enterprise Limited of Richards Landing, Ontario, was critically injured when a motor fell during maintenance work being performed on a portable cone crusher. Gilbertson Enterprises failed as an employer to take every precaution reasonable in the circumstances for the protection of a worker. The accident took place on May 15, 2021.

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Blog Post #1469 – Railway Car Manufacturer Fined $140,000 After Worker Fatality

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by National Steel Car Limited was fatally injured after being struck by a lift-assist device that fell from an overhead crane. National Steel Car Limited failed, as an employer, to ensure that the hoisting controls for the overhead crane were located so they could be operated at a safe distance from a load being lifted. The plant was in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Blog Post #1384 – Workplace Injury Results in $50,000 Fine for Stratford Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by FIO Automotive Canada Corporation (FIO), suffered a critical injury at the workplace when a 1,500-pund feed bar was knocked out of its support cradle and struck the worker who was operating the crane. FIO contravened a section of the ‘Industrial Regulations’ by failing to ensure that a feed bar that may tip or fall and endanger any worker was secured against tipping or falling.

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Blog Post #1351 – Worker Injured at Transformer Facility in Maple, ON – Company Fined $50,000

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’ A worker, employed by Northern Transformer Corporation of Maple, ON L6A 4P5, a company that manufactures electrical transformers, was critically injured while performing work at the company’s manufacturing facility. On May, 24, 2019, a worker employed by Northern Transformer Corp., was performing work at the company’s manufacturing facility … Continue Reading