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Blog Post #1687 – Workplace Injury Results in $350,000 Fine for Guelph-based Company

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Linamar Corporation, carrying on business as Linamar Gear of Guelph, ON, an automotive parts manufacturer, was critically injured as a result of the company’s failure to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 45(a) of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out at a workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post#1685 – Toronto Company Fined $110,000 After Workplace Fatality

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed Millwick Waste Recycling Inc. of North York, Ontario, a full waste recycling company, was fatally injured in a wheel-loader collision. The company failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 56 of Ontario Regulation 851/90 were carried out, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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