Posts Tagged As: CSSE

Blog Post #1647 – Workplace Injury Results in $85,000 Fine for Mississauga Company

Report from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by Cerelia Bakery of Vancouver, British Columbia, was critically injured after accessing an unguarded pinch point on a conveyor. Cerelia Bakery failed, as an employer, to ensure that the conveyor was guarded to prevent access to the pinch point, as required by section 25 of Ontario Regulation 851/90, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1644 – Maple Construction Company Fined $250,000 After Four Workers Injured, Two Fatally

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

Four workers, employed by Direct Underground Inc., Maple, Ontario, a sewer and watermain construction company were injured, two of them fatally, during the installation of a new underground sewer system. Direct Underground Inc. failed, as an employer, to ensure that the walls of the excavation were supported by a shoring system or appropriately sloped, as required by section 234(1) of Ontario Regulation 213/91, contrary to section 25(1)(c) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act.

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Blog Post #1638 – Two Companies Fined $230,000 Total After Workplace Fatality

Excerpt from the government of Ontario’s ‘Newsroom’

A worker, employed by New Horizon Development Group (Waterdown) Inc. of Burlington, Ontario, a construction company, fell from the roof of a building under construction. New Horizon failed to ensure there were warning signs posted about the fall hazard, as required by section 23(1)(a) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. TKEM Electric failed to provide information, instruction or supervision related to the fall hazard as required by section 25(2)(a) of the Act.

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