Posts Categorized As: Overhead Cranes

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

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

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

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

Blog Post #1312 – Strapping Machine Injury Results in $65,000 Fine for Mill Operator

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Norbord Inc., of Toronto, Ontario, an international company that produces wood-based products, including Oriented Strand Board (OSB), a type of engineered wood, was injured when a machine activated unexpectedly. The machine was not equipped with a guard or other device in place to prevent access by a worker to hazardous moving parts.