Posts Tagged As: CSSE

Blog Post #1425 – Workplace Injury Results in $110,000 Fine for Concord Employer

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

On June 24, 2020, a worker, employed by Indwisco Limited of Concord, Ontario, was attempting to do a quality check on a vertical wire drawing machine. The machine was located on an elevated platform accessible by a stairway with six steps. While climbing the stairs to perform the task, the worker lost their footing. When instinctively extending their arms to brace their fall, the worker’s gloved hand came in contact with the moving wire, injuring the worker.

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Blog Post #1419 – Workplace Injury Results in $75,000 Fine for an Alberta-based Belleville Employer

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Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Three workers were operating a mixer that makes sausages. As they were emptying the contents into two-wheeled bins at the outfeed to clean the mixer, one worker reached into the discharge hole, seriously injuring themselves. The accident occurred at the JBS Ontario Foods Inc. plant on Jamieson Bone Rd. Belleville, Ontario. JBS Ontario Foods Inc. is based in Calgary, Alberta.

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