Posts Tagged As: Canada

Blog Post #1624 – Workplace Injury Results in $80,000 Fine for Quebec Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘newsroom’

A worker, employed by Andritz Hydro Canada, of Pointe-Claire, Quebec, a company that supplies hydro turbines and generators in Canada, was critically injured after being struck by a falling sole plate. By not ensuring the sole plate was adequately braced, Andritz Hydro Canada failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures 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 #1622 – Workplace Injury Results in $68,000 Fine for Woodbridge Company

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Innovative Metal Works Inc. of Woodbridge, Ontario, a company that manufactures and installs structural steel at construction projects, sustained critical injuries after a nylon hoisting strap holding a lateral assembly beam to a crane broke, causing the beam to swing and fall. By not ensuring to take steps to protect the nylon hoisting strap from being cut, Innovative Metal Works Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure that the measures and procedures prescribed by section 172(3) of the Regulation for Construction Projects were carried out at the workplace, contrary section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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