Posts Categorized As: Traffic Control

Blog Post #1534 – Workplace Fatality Results in $280,000 Fine for Toronto Waste Management Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker was fatally struck by a dump truck at a landfill site. Waste Management of Canada Corporation failed, as an employer, to protect a worker by ensuring the safety measures and procedures required for a signaler were carried out, as outlined in the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1508 – Concord Transport Company Fined $140,000 After Workplace Fatality

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Vitran Express Canada Inc., operating as National Fast Freight, of Concord, Ontario, a transport and logistics services company, was fatally injured when they were caught between a reversing truck and a trailer. Vitran Express Canada Inc. failed to ensure that a truck tractor provided had a functional back up alarm or back up lights, contrary to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1503 – Pedestrian Fatality in Construction Work Zone Results in $125,000 Fine for Concord Employer

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A pedestrian was fatally struck by a dump truck in a work zone near a TTC bus stop. D & A Road Services Inc. failed to ensure that measures and procedures under section 65 of Ontario regulation 213/91, which requires a fence to be constructed between the public walkway and the project were carried out in the workplace.

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