Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by John Ernewein Limited of Walkerton, Ontario, was critically injured, and six other workers received minor injuries because of the collapse of roof trusses. The employer failed to ensure the trusses were adequately braced.
Excerpt from the OH&S Canada magazine (Oct. 2016)
A construction firm was fined $50,000 on August 11, 2016, in connection with a worker injury two years earlier.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
THS Industries Ltd., as an employer, and Xiaoye He, as a Director, failed to take all reasonable care to ensure equipment, materials and protective devices, as prescribed by Section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851/90, were provided for nail-maker machines, leaving workers at risk of accessing moving parts inside the machines.
Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’
A worker, employed by National Steel Car Limited was fatally injured after being struck by a lift-assist device that fell from an overhead crane. National Steel Car Limited failed, as an employer, to ensure that the hoisting controls for the overhead crane were located so they could be operated at a safe distance from a load being lifted. The plant was in Hamilton, Ontario.