Excerpt from the OH&S Canada Magazine (December 2016)
The proprietor of a Dorchester-based roofing company was sentenced on November 03, 2016, to serve 3 days in prison and pay a $5,000 fine over an incident in a fall in 2015, in which an employee was injured in a fall last year.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
On September 5, 2020, a ministry inspector arrived at a roofing project for a two storey multi-unit residence in the City of Quinte West. The employer was on site, along with two workers.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Impala Canada Ltd., of Toronto Ontario, a mining company that operates the Lac Des Iles Mine, an open-pit and underground palladium mine, suffered critical injuries after falling from a scissor lift work platform while installing a silencer on a fan in the Lac Des Iles Mine’s ventilation system. At the time, the guardrails on the scissor lift platform had been removed. Impala Canada Ltd. failed to ensure measures and procedures prescribed by the Mines and Mining Plants Regulation were carried out in the workplace.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by Elmira Pet Products Ltd., of Elmira, Ontario was critically injured from a fall, while cleaning a pet food manufacturing plant. Contrary to safety procedures, Elmira Pet Products Ltd. failed, as an employer, to ensure a worker was protected by means of a guardrail system or protective coverings as outlined in the Occupational Health and Safety Act.