Excerpt from the Ontario Government’s ‘Newsroom’
Fer-Pal Construction Ltd. a Toronto company that does water main construction, was fined $90,000 on May 12, 2009, for violations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act (OHSA), after a worker was injured.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
Atlas Dewatering Corporation, a Concord company dealing in groundwater control, was fined $75,000 on February 10 for a violation of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a worker was critically injured. Patrick Maher, a supervisor with the company, was fined $6,000 in relation to the same incident.
I was totally angered to see the final results of the tragic death of a 15 year boy on a paving site in Manitoba. Again, the governments of some of our sister provinces do not fully comprehend their responsibilities to protect their workers from future accidents such as this one.