Posts Categorized As: Working at Heights

Blog Post #754 – Jebco Industries of Innisfil Fined $30,000

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Jebco Industries Inc., a company that operates a coatings, linings and moulding facility in Innisfil, has pleaded guilty and has been fined $30,000 after a worker was observed working on top of a flatbed trailer without using a safety harness or other fall protection equipment as required by law. No one was injured.

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Blog Post #731 – Swing N Scaff Inc., Company Director Fined Total of $400,000 in Deaths of Four Workers

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Swing N Scaff Inc., the Ottawa-based company that supplied the swing stage platform that collapsed on December 24, 2009, resulting in the deaths of four workers and significant injuries to another, has been fined $350,000 in Old City Hall court. A company director, Patrick Deschamps, has been fined $50,000.

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