Posts Tagged As: Accidents Preventable

Blog Post #1656 – Workplace Injury Results In $75,000 Fine for Goderich Salt Mining Company

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘newsroom’

A worker, employed by Compass Minerals Canada Corp., of Mississauga, Ontario, a salt mining company. was critically injured while assisting with repairs on a flexible conveyor train. By failing to close off the area and position warning signs to protect workers, Compass Minerals Canada Corp. failed to ensure that the measures and procedures as prescribed by section 68 of Ontario Regulation 854/90 were carried out at the workplace, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1654 – Chatham Constructor Fined $85,000 After Worker Fatality

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by John Harris Concrete Ltd. of Chatham, Ontario, a very small construction company specializing in concrete foundations, was fatally injured while cutting down a tree. The company failed, as an employer, to provide training to the worker as required by section 25(2)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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